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Any detailed OOB for the 8th Guards Army for the Berlin Battle someone??
If you have it, please PM me and I will send you my email address to send it to,
I am planning to eventually buy some good books on Soviet OOB, but I am not sure where to start.. I saw that Craig Crofoot has some that look interesting and Charles C. Sharp also published 12 volumes.
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Air Defense forces (like other combat support - engineer, signal, etc.) are almost always split up and thus wouldn't be depicted on a map. For example a brigade of Air Defense forces may support a corps with a battalion going to each division, further more a company "sliced" down to each rifle brigade or regiment.
Since maps usually don't depict units below rifle regiment level, you're probably not going to find your specific air defense unit's "X marks the spot."
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If you're serious about researching, the books are a must.
After translating, I usually charge $5 for unit research since I have to thumb through my books, make a photocopy, etc. and that's time I don't have for funner stuff.
If it's just advice you want, no problem. That takes a lot less time than the above.
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I am looking for any info (or pics!) of the 64th Guards Ind. Tank Brigade...I know they used Shermans and met up with the 82nd Airborne (US) in 1945...any other info would be great!
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Sorry not really an info.
On 5th. März 1945, after heavy fighting with German troops, the 64th. Guards Tank Brigade captured the German town Nelep which lies in the administrative district Belgard-Schivelbein in Pommern.
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Andreas
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Don't know if it helps... The commanders:
Lieutenant-Colonel Aleksandr Fedorovich Burda (23 Oct 1943 - 30 Jan 1944)
Lieutenant-Colonel Ivan Nikiforovich Boiko (01 Feb 1944 - 9 May 1945)
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thanks guys, any info helps!-dd
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Numerical strength of the Soviet tank units of the South-Western Front on 19:00 May 11, 1942
6th Army--21st Tank Corps -- 64th Tank Brigade
198th Tank Brigade
199th Tank Brigade
64th Tank Brigade -- 16 T-60 , 10 MkII, 20 MkIII total 46
Tank Brigade strength May 23
64th TB - 11 MkII 1 MkIII 21 T-60 total 33
losses for May 25. (Tchepel area):
64th TB - 7 MkII, 3 T-60
On May 26 the Tank Brigade had operable: 2 MkII,1 MkIII, 7 T-60
Losses for May 26: 64th TB - none
On May 27 operable: 64th TB - 2 MkII, 1 MkIII, 7 T-60
On May 28 operable: 64th TB - 2 MkII, 5 T-60
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Taz,
You are not referring to the same brigade. The 64th Tank Brigade was disbanded on 22 Dec 1942 (it was split in the 251st and 261st Tank Regiment). The 64th Guards Tank Brigade was formed on 23 Oct 1943 out of the 49th Tank Brigade. The full name of the 64th Guards Tank Brigade was "64th Guards Tank "Chernovitsko-Berlinskaya" Order of Lenin Red Banner Order of Suvorov Brigade".
