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The Battle of Rzhev in the summer of 1942 was part of a series of battles that lasted 15 months in the center of the Eastern Front.It is known in Soviet history of World War II as the first Rzhev–Sychyovka offensive operation, which was defined as spanning from 30 July to 23 August 1942.
Rzhev–Vyazma offensive (1942) (3 March – 20 April 1942) Operation Seydlitz and the Soviet defensive battles around Bely and Kholm-Zhirkovsky (2–23 July 1942) launched by 9th Army of Germany to eliminate the salient in the vicinity between Bely and Kholm–Zhirkovsky and annihilate the 39th Army and 11th Cavalry Corps of the Kalinin Front [6]
The Vyazma Airborne Operation was a Red Army airborne landing in the rear of German lines during the Battles of Rzhev. It took place from 18 January to 28 February 1942. [1] The objective of the airborne landing was to help troops of the Kalinin Front and Western Front to encircle and destroy Army Group Centre. The airborne operation was ...
In 9 July 1942 the Corps was reorganised as the XXXIX Panzer Corps. [1] It was shifted to the Rzhev salient, under the 9th Army of Army Group Centre, where it was involved in Battle of Rzhev in the summer of 1942. Army Group Centre evacuated the Rzhev salient early in 1943. [2]
Battle of Rzhev, summer 1942; G. ... (1942) Battle of Rostov (1941) Rovno–Lutsk offensive; Battles of Rzhev; Rzhev-Sychevka Strategic Offensive; S.
The offensive was one in a series of particularly bloody engagements that are collectively known in Soviet and Russian histories as the Battles of Rzhev, which occurred near Rzhev, Sychevka and Vyazma between January 1942 and March 1943. The battles became known as the "Rzhev meat grinder" ("Ржевская мясорубка") for their huge ...
Reformed in February 1942, the division's second formation became a guards division for its actions in the Battles of Rzhev. Formed a third time in the summer of 1943 in the Soviet Far East, the division fought in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria in August and September 1945.
The series of battles known collectively as the Battle of Rzhev, Summer 1942 began on the Eastern Front. WAVES, the women's branch of the United States Navy Reserve, was founded in the United States. German submarine U-166 was depth charged and sunk in the Gulf of Mexico by the U.S. Navy patrol craft PC-566.