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1st Belorussian Front - The 1st Belorussian Front (alternative spellings are 1st Byelorussian Front and 1st Belarusian Front) was a military subdivision (Front) of the Soviet Army during the Second World War.
3rd Belorussian Front - The 3rd Belorussian Front (alternative spellings are 3rd Byelorussian Front and 3rd Belarusian Front) was a Front (military subdivision) of the Soviet Army during the Second World War.
2nd Belorussian Front - The 2nd Belorussian Front (alternative spellings are 2nd Byelorussian Front and 2nd Belarusian Front) was a military subdivision (Front) of the Soviet Army during the Second World War.
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 Biographies
At the victory parade of 24 June 1945, the composite regiment of the 2nd Belorussian Front was led by Kuz’ma Petrovich Trubnikov, a veteran of three wars.
From May to October 1942 Trubnikov was deputy to the commander of the 16th Army on the Western Front, and from October 1942 to September 1943 deputy commander of the Don Front forces at Stalingrad.
From September to November 1944—deputy commander of the forces of the 1st Belorussian Front; from November 1944 to July 1945—deputy commander of forces of the 2nd Belorussian Front.
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 Movement to contact and commitment to combat of reserve fronts Military Thought - Find Articles
In 1943, the Reserve Front was recreated, albeit briefly (it was known as the Kursk Front on 24-27 March, and as the Orel Front on 27-28 March), in April it was transformed into the Stepnoy Military District, which on 9 July was redesignated the Stepnoy Front.
Thus, prior to the counteroffensive near Moscow, the Western Front was reinforced by the 1st Assault Army and the 10th Army with a mission to launch attacks along the front's flanks.
The front's forces were assigned to a flank of the strategic grouping of forces to press an attack along the coastal axis and thus reliably protect the right flank of the 1st Belorussian Front.
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 Battle for Berlin
The 2nd Belorussian Front began its crossing of the Oder, with elements of the 65th Army securing a reasonable bridgehead to the south of Kurzow.
In the meantime, armoured columns of the 2nd Belorussian Front had been circling around the city to the north, while counterparts in the 1st Ukrainian Front were moving up along the west side of city to meet them.
On the morning of the 2nd of May, in the 5th Shock Army's area the Reichs Chancellery was attacked by elements of the 9th Rifle Corps and captured.
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 Georgy Zhukov hero file
The USSR, a union of the Russian, Belorussian, Ukrainian, and Transcaucasian republics, is established in December 1922.
Front line forces are flanked by second lines under orders to shoot down any soldier who tries to flee.
Command of the Soviet forces is split between Zhukov in the centre (the 1st Belorussian Front), Marshal Ivan Stepanovich Konev in the south (the 1st Ukranian Front), and Marshal Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky in the north (the 2nd Belorussian Front).
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 Broken Front Tooth
Front organization - A front organization, also known as a front group (if it is structured to look like a voluntary association) or a front company or simply a front (if it is structured to look like a company), is any entity set up by and controlled by another organization.
A front organization may simply be a proxy that keeps the parent group's name out of the picture or it may look publicly as if it is set up to do one thing, but actually be set up to do something else on behalf of its parent group.
2nd Belorussian Front - The 2nd Belorussian Front (alternative spellings are 2nd Byelorussian Front and 2nd Belarusian Front) was a military subdivision of the Soviet Army during the Second World War.
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 Battle of Berlin information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The three Soviet Fronts had altogether 2.5 million men (including 78,556 soldiers of the 1st Polish Army); 6,250 tanks; 7,500 aircraft; 41,600 artillery pieces and mortars; 3,255 truck-mounted Katyusha rockets (nicknamed 'Stalin Organs'); and 95,383 motor vehicles, many manufactured in the USA.
To the north between Stettin and Schwedt, 2BF attacked the northern flank of Army Group Vistula, held by the III Panzer Army.
2BF had established a bridgehead on the east bank of the Oder over 15 km deep and was heavily engaged with the III Panzer Army.
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Front Office Football - Front Office Football is a text sim which places you at the helm of an NFL football team.
That four of the five times the Allison brothers ran 1-2 in a race, it was Donnie in front at the checkers.
Fewer still may know that he was rookie of the year in the 1970 Indianapolis 500 or that he seriously considered giving up stockcar racing to go drive Indy cars full-time for A.J. Foyt.
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 Eastern Front (World War II)
The Eastern Front resulted in staggering losses and disregard for human life almost entirely as a consequence of the ideological premise for the war.
Eighty miles west of Kiev, the 4th Panzer Army, still convinced that the Red Army was a spent force, was able to mount a successful riposte at Zhitomir during the middle of November, blunting the Soviet bridgehead via a daring outflanking strike mounted by the SS Panzer Corps along the river Teterev.
The Belorussian Offensive (codenamed Operation Bagration) started on June 22, 1944, it was a massive Soviet attack, consisting of four Soviet army groups totaling over 120 divisions that smashed into a thinly-held German line.
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 1945
2nd Ukrainian front under Malinovsky conquers the industrial area of Mosonmagyarovar and reaches the Austrian border between Dounau and the Neusiedler lake.
The 3rd Ukrainian front occupies Radkesburg and the 2nd Ukrainian front attacks in the direction of Brno in Czechoslovakia.
The 2nd Belorussian front advances in Pomerania seizes Prenzlau and Angermunde.
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 World War II Day by Day: January 1945
To the north, the 1st Baltic, 2nd Belorussian, and 3rd Belorussian Fronts launch an offensive into East Prussia on the 13th.
The Soviet 2nd Belorussian Front cuts all road and rail crossings across the Vistula River, isolating German units on the east bank.
The Soviet Second Guards Tank Army, part of the 1st Belorussian Front, storms the fortified town of Bromberg, an important strongpoint in the German Poznan Line.
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 Eastern Front (World War II) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Eastern Front of World War II was the theatre of war covering the conflict in eastern Europe, notorious for its unprecedented ferocity, destruction, and immense loss of life.
In addition the 1st and 2nd Polish armies, armed and trained by the Soviets, fought alongside the Red Army at the front.
The genocidal death toll was attributed to several factors, including brutal mistreatment of POWs and captured partisans by both sides, multiple atrocities by the Germans and the Soviets against the civilian population, the wholesale use of weaponry on the battlefield against huge masses of infantry, and Joseph Stalin's draconian policies against supposed enemies.
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 1945 History
German 3rd Panzer Army and part of 2nd Army is cut off in East Prussia.
2nd Belorussian Front advance is stopped after 10 days of heavy fighting..
The 1st Belorussian Front begins final assault on Berlin.
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 Fall of Berlin
Belorussian Front hcaded for thc northern reaches of the Oder while Zhukov's 1st Belorussian Front held a line along the Oder opposite Berlin.
On 16 April the I st Belorussian Front attacked at dawn and the 1 st Ukrainian Front joined in at daylight.
The 1st Belorussian Front did not make much progress and since the 1st Ukrainian Front had penetrated six miles on the first day Konev was ordered to head for Berlin.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/1st Belorussian Front
It also took part in the Battle of Radzymin (1944), where its 8th Guards, 28th, 47th, 65th, 69th, and 70th Armies (including the Soviet 1st Rifle Division) were involved.
24 January 1BF and 2nd Belorussian Fronts attack Pomerania.
25 April Units of the 1BF and 1st Ukrainian Fronts meet at Kietzen west of Berlin.
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 ForValor.com - Hero of the Soviet Union Kolesnikov
Belorussian Front and attacked the front lines of the enemy defense and its military personnel.
On the South Front, serving near Stalingrad in the same rank from 13 July 1942 to 5 September 1942, counterattacked the reserve forces of the enemy, destroying the crossings over the river Don near the Morozovskaya station and the village of Tsymlyanskaya.
Belorussian Front in the Osovets area destroyed a crossing with a group of eight IL-2 aircraft lead by him.
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 WWII Axis Military History Day-by-Day: March
March 4th, 1945: Units of the Soviet 1st Belorussian Front (Zhukov) establish a new bridgehead across the Oder south of Frankfurt.
on the Oder front in the East, troops of the Soviet 1st Belorussian Front are fighting inside the fortress of Küstrin.
March 13th, 1945: The Soviet 1st Belorussian Front (Zhukov) captures the Oder fortress of Küstrin, 70 miles east of Berlin, while the 2nd Belorussian Front (Rokossovsky) launches an offensive against the Braunsberg pocket south of Königsberg.
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In the wake of Operation Bagration in August 1944, the Eastern Front became relatively stable.
The three Soviet Fronts had altogether 2.5 million men (including 78,556 soldiers of the 1st Polish Army), 6,250 tanks, 7,500 aircraft, 41,600 artillery pieces and mortars, 3,255 truck-mounted Katyusha rocket launchers (nicknamed 'Stalin Organs'), and 95,383 motor vehicles, many manufactured in the USA.
On April 18, both Soviet Fronts made steady progress but Soviet losses were again substantial.
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 2nd Belorussian Front - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
November Marshal Rokossovsky appointed commander of the 2BF.
24 January 1st and 2nd Belorussian Fronts attack in Pomerania.
23 March 2BF attacked the German II Army in the Danzig area.
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Marshal Rokossovsky's 2nd Belorussian Front attacks East Prussia.
The NKVD and SMERSH chief with each Front was answerable only to Beria and Stalin, not to the military chain of command.
Army Group and Front A German 'Army Group' or a Red Army 'Front' represented a collection of armies under a single commander-in-chief.
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 HY 150 BISK THE SECOND WORLD WAR http
The director of the Labor Front, Robert Ley, told her that he had to put racial-biological considerations before the needs of the war economy.
In 1944, on the 1st Belorussian Front, about to smash into the formidable Army Group Center, some 3,000 women served with the front’s armies.
She was forty-eight when she first went to the front, notched up 122 kills and, as an instructor to Red Army men, became “the sniper’s Mum,” teaching her trade.
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 What happend on this day? - WW2inColor Talk
Meanwhile, in the area of Army Group Center, elements of German 9th and 2nd Armies eliminate the resistance of Soviet forces trapped in the Bialystok pocket.Stalin broadcasts for the first time since the German invasion.
German forces of the 4th Army, which has been pinned by 2nd Belorussian Front, are now trapped east of the city.
Late afternoon - elements of the 86th Infantry Division, supported by a regiment from the 18th Pz Division and Elefants from the 643rd and 654th Antitank Detachment reach the outskirts of Ponyri.
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From their 2nd line, which had many steep slopes and the plateaus, the Germans opened fire with what weapons they could, grinding Zhukov's offensive to a near halt.
As it moved to escape 1st Belorussian front, Busse's Army was hit by Konev's 1st Ukranian front as it charged to Berlin from the south, largely encircling the force.
On April 21, the right flank of 1st Belorussian front reached open ground, pushing on to the outskirts of the German capital, all the while creating a gap between 9th and 3rd Panzer Armies.
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The 2nd Fighter Group was also engaged in the fighting against the Soviets on the front in Moldavia and it claimed a few victories.
The divisions that were on the front line (1st, 2nd, 4th, 10th, 18th, 19th and 20th Infantry Divisions) were only partially reorganized and had lower combat potential.
Beside its utilization on the front line, few IAR-38s were used as trainers for the preparation of the future crews of Ju 87D and from November 1943, some IAR-37s and 39s were used for towing the DFS-230 gliders of the 109th Transport Squadron.
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 The Forum of the 1.Jagdmoroner Abteilung - 60th anniversary of "Bragation"
In 1812 Bagration commanded the 2nd army of the West, and though defeated at Mogilev (23 July 1812), rejoined the main army under Barclay de Tolly, and led the left wing at the Battle of Borodino (7 September 1812), where he received a mortal wound.
Not in scope: left wing of 1st Belorussian Front (attacking since 18-July-1944) with 5 Armies (8th Guards, Polish Army), 1 Tank Army (2nd) (416,000 soldiers, 1,748 tanks+SPG, 36 RDs, 8,335 pieces of Arty / Grenade launchers)
SS-Pz.-Korps with 9th and 10th SS Pz.-Divisons were transferred from the Eastern front to Normandy.
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 WWII Axis Military History Day-by-Day: February
February 1, 1945: In its drive toward the Oder, the Soviet 1st Belorussian Front (Zhukov) reaches the river NW of Küstrin.
February 10, 1945: In the East, the attack by 2nd Belorussian Front (Rokossovsky) against the Pommernstellung is blocked by the German defenders.
February 16, 1945: On the Eastern front in Pommerania, the remaining units of the 11.SS-Panzer-Armee launch fully into Operation Sonnenwende, which in reality is a severely restricted counter-offensive to relieve the Kuestrin area.
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 AAR - Hollow Triumph
2nd Belorussian Front with mixture of T-34 M43s and T-34M85s, Several IS-2s, Recons, armor vehicles, and SMG Guard units.
Kamenka was located on a valley next to a hill and a forest so that the city was an excellent place to set up an ambush.
120 mm mortar was placed in the woods behind the front to support infantry.
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 AII POW-MIA WW II Working Group Findings
As Soviet troops of the 2nd Belorussian Front (probably 19th Army) advanced on the area, the Germans evacuated this camp beginning 6 February 1945, and marched the prisoners west.
The POW population grew significantly from February to April 1945 as the Germans marched prisoners from camps further east to Stalag III-A. On 7 February for instance, 5,000 American POWs from Stalag III-B, Furstenburg, virtually the entire population of that camp, arrived at Luckenwalde.
Similarly, the precise command relationship between Soviet fronts and armies is not obvious from the original maps; information was derived from the physical proximity of organization symbols and inferred unit boundaries as they appear on the maps.
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