Researching Red Army/Navy Units

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Redesignated as 62nd Army: 10 July 1942

Key Commanders: General Major V. Ya. Kolpakchy, 1942

General Lieutenant, Alkesandr I. Lopatin, 12 September 1942

General Lieutenant Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov, 12 Sep 1942-16 April 1943. (General (later Marshal) Chuikov went on to command the 8th Guards Army until 1945

Units :
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(July 1942): 33 Guards, 147, 181, 184, 192, 196 Rifle Divisions. 42, 115, 124, 149, 160 Special Brigades, 84, 137, 189 Tank Brigades and 10 NKVD Rifle Division.

November 1942): 13 (Siberian - General Alexandr Rodimtsev), 37, 39 Guards, 45, 95, 112, 138, 193, 284, 308 Rifle Divisions, 92nd Naval Rifle Brigade

(October, 1943): 27, 39, 50, 74, 78, 79, 82, 88 Guards Rifle Divisions

(January, 1944): 4 Guards Rifle Corps (inc. 35, 47, 157 Guards Rifle Divisions)

28 Guards Rifle Corps (inc. 39, 79, 88 Guards Rifle Divisions)

29 Guards Rifle Corps (inc. 27, 74, 82 Guards Rifle Divisions)

(Same units remained until end of the war)

Major Actions:
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Kletskaya, July, 1942

Battle of Stalingrad, July, 1942 - February, 1943

Kursk, July, 1943

Captured Port of Odessa, April, 1944

Vistula breakthrough army, January, 1945

Poznan, Feb, 1945

Berlin, main attack army, April, 1945 (General Chuikov accepted the German surrender in Berlin on May 2, 1945)

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