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В данной статье рассмотриваются потери, понесенные Красной Армией, Вермахтом и войсками стран сателлитов Третьего Рейха, а также гражданским населением СССР и Германии, только в период с 22.06.1941 до момента окончания военных действий в Европе (к сожалению, в случае с Германией это практически неисполнимо). Сознательно исключены советско-финляндская война и «освободительный» поход РККА. Вопрос потерь СССР и Германии неоднократно поднимался в печати, идут бесконечные споры в Интернете и по телевидению, но к единому знаменателю исследователи данного вопроса прийти никак не могут, потому что, как правило, все аргументы сводятся в итоге к эмоциональным и политизированным высказываниям. Это лишний раз доказывает, насколько болезненный это вопрос в отечественной истории.
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В 19:00 советские и монгольские части предприняли штурм. Японцы не выдержали и стали отходить ночью к переправе. На рассвете танки 1-го и 2-го батальонов 11-й ОЛТБр прорвались к переправе и начали ее обстрел. Во избежание захвата переправы японское командование отдало приказ о ее подрыве, тем самым отрезав пути отступления своей группировке на западном берегу реки, которая подверглась атаке и была разгромлена. Японцы были рассеяны, броив все вооружение. Советскими войсками была захвачена вся техника и тяжелое вооружение, только...
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Вечером приехал к нам начальник бронетанкового управления товарищ Павлов. «Сейчас,—говорит,— товарищи, я вас ознакомлю с дотами укрепрайона Бабошино. Т-28 не могут пройти — горят, надеемся на вас. Завтра утром пустим вас в бой, нужно срочно испытать машины»...
In 1944, when four factories of our country were producing tens of thousands of new T-34s — the most mass produced tank in all the history of world-wide tank production, the designers under the leadership of A. A. Morozov created a new tank T-44. It contained a number of innovations. The main one was the transversal mounting of the engine. This bold design decision determined the construction of later modifications of the tank for many decades to come...
The removal of 9th Primorsk Army on the left bank of Dniepr was completed on July 24. By this time Soviet 6th and 12th Armies have been encircled by the Germans from the West, North and East. This actually have adjoined the right flank of Southern Front. July 25 under the solution of the Soviet High Command these Soviet armies were subordinated to the Southern Front.
Before the start of the Great Patriotic War the armored forces — «avtobronetankovyje vojska» — of the Red Army, (it should be noted that this name was changed to 'armored and mechanized forces — «bronetankovyje i mekhanizirovannyje vojska» — at the end of 1942), consisted of the mechanized corps, several tank divisions, and the tank regiments assigned to cavalry divisions. The army tank formations and detachments as well as tank formations of the Reserve of the High Command (RGK) that existed prior to mid-1940 were used to raise the mechanized corps. At the start of the war there were 29 mechanized corps in different stages of formation. They consisted of 1 mechanized division, 2 tank divisions, a motorcycle regiment, an independent signal battalion, an independent engineer battalion, and other corps auxiliary units.
The breakthrough of a defense in World War II was always a complex problem for the attacking side. Forces and means were carefully prepared and amassed; a time and place were selected. What would be the outcome of an operation in which the troops went over to the attack at night or in poor weather conditions, practically without artillery preparation? This would be absurd, you say. Such an operation would be bound to fail. But this is exactly how one could characterize the overwhelming majority of our amphibious landing operations of the first and second periods of the Great Patriotic War...
During the struggle for the Crimean peninsula, an important role was played by the Red Army’s ability to mount a successful ice crossing of the Kerch’ strait in January of 1942. The operation posed considerable logistical and organizational challenges for the Trans-Caucasian Front’s engineer units, and transporting a large number of...
