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Units of Interest
Slaughterhouse contains literally too many units to list here. Thumbnail
histories such as the following are included for 881 Soviet Directions, Fronts,
Armies, Corps, and Divisions, as well as 487 German and German allies' Army Groups,
Armies, Corps, and Divisions. Typical samples are listed below.
Red Army 87th Rifle Division/13th Guards Rifle Division (Poltava)
| Nov 41 |
Formed in the Kursk region as the 87th Rifle Div on the base of units of the 3rd Airborne Corps. Served in sequence in the 40th, 38th, 28th, and 62nd Armies; after July 43, in the 5th Guards Army |
| 1942.43 |
Participated in defensive operations in the Voronezh, Khakhov, Valuisk, and Rossosh Directions, on the Don River line, and in the Battle of Stalingrad. Tok part in the Battle of Kursk and liberation of the Left Bank Ukraine |
Jan 43 |
Honored and renamed 13th Guards Rifle Division |
| Sep 43 |
Awarded the "Poltava" place-name honorific. Two sister divisions were also awarded "Poltava" as an honorific 95th Guards and 97th Guards RDs (see below) for similar combat performance in the 5th Guards Army |
| 1943 |
Kirovograd, Uman-Botoshany, Lvov-Sandomir offensives Upper and Lower Silesia, and Prague operations. |
Commanders
Gen. Major A.I. Rodimtsev, 1941-43
Gen. Major G.V. Baklanov, 1943-44
Col. V.N. Komarov, 1944-45
German 205th Infantry Division
| August 1939 |
Formed from 14th Landwehr Division in Freiburg |
| November 1939 |
Border security operations, offensive operations in France, occupation of France, return to Freiburg, training in Germany, return to occupation and coastal defense operations in France |
| January 1942 |
Transferred to Vitebsk, USSR |
| February 1942 |
Defensive operations vic. Velish, Velikie Luki, Demidov |
| July 1942 |
Offensive and anti-partisan operations vic. Western Dvina River, Surazh |
| January 1943 |
Movement, rehabilitation, relief of encircled forces vic. Nevel, Velikie Luki |
| January 1943 |
Defensive operations vic. Novosokolniki |
| April 1943 |
Defensive operations vic. Velikie Luki, Novosokolniki |
| April 1943 |
One regiment disbanded |
| December 1943 |
Defensive and offensive operations vic. Novosokolniki |
| February 1944 |
Withdrawal, defensive operations vic. Polotsk |
| July 1944 |
Withdrawal, defensive operations in Lithuania vic. Zarasel and Latvia vic. Jaunjelgava, Plavinas |
| October 1944 |
Defensive operations vic. Riga, Tukums |
| November 1944- |
Retrograde operations to Latvian coast; defensive operations vic. Kurland; |
| May 1945 |
Capitulated to Soviet forces |
Italian 3rd "Duca D'Aosta" Celere (Cavalry) Division
Home Station: Verona
| July 1941 | Campolung, Romania |
| August 1941 | Offensive operations between the Dniestr and Bug Rivers vic. Oligopol |
| September 1941 | Offensive operations along west bank of the Dniepr River vic. Dneprodsershinsk |
| November 1941 | Advanced across the Mius River to Rykovo |
| December 1941 | Offensive and defensive operations southeast of Rykovo vic. Krestovka |
| January-February 1942 | Defenisve operations east of Dnepropetrovsk |
| March 1942 | Defensive operations vic. Konstantinovka |
| July 1942 | Offensive operations toward Ivanovka and Krasnyj Luch |
| August 1942 | Offensive operations wouth of Don River vic. Jagodni |
| November-December 1942 | Italian Eighth Army reserve vic. Nikoskoye |
| January-February 1943 | Defensive operations along Don River; destroyed |
| Commander: Division General Marazzani |
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by David Glantz, et. al.
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- 520 pages; 9 maps
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