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German and Soviet deployments on the Eastern Front, June to August 1944, showing Operation Bagration to the north, Lvov-Sandomierz to the south. The encirclement of the German XIII Army Corps at Brody is shown in Konev's First Ukrainian command.
The Battle of Brody (other names in use include Battle of Dubna, Battle of Dubno, Battle of Rovne, Battle of Rovne-Brody) was a tank battle fought between the 1st Panzer Group's III Army Corps and XLVIII Army Corps (Motorized) and five mechanized corps of the Soviet 5th Army and 6th Army in the triangle formed by the towns of Dubno, Lutsk and Brody between 23 and 30 June 1941.
On 30 September 1944, Freitag was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for his role as the Galicia Division commander at the Battle of Brody. [84] In late August 1944, a rebellion broke out in Slovakia against the pro-German government of President Josef Tiso.
The war diary of the Quartermaster Department of the III Panzer Corps, entry for 3 April 1944 at 13.50, noted: [99] There is a line of motor vehicles many kilometers long in front of the bridge. The bridge has an hourly capacity of only 30 motor vehicles, so that most of the motor vehicles cannot cross the bridge until the intended bridge ...
There were multiple major battles fought in the vicinity of the town of Brody in what is now Ukraine: Battle of Brody (1863), part of the January Uprising; Battle of Brody (1920) during the Polish–Bolshevik War; Battle of Brody (1941) during Operation Barbarossa; Battle of Brody (1944) during the Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive of World War II
3.1.6 1944: Operation Bagration and the Warsaw ... also known as the Battle of Brody — an early Soviet counter-attack that was the most significant Soviet tank ...
The basis for issuing the order was order No. 302010 of the Headquarters, Supreme Commander of the Red Army of 3 October 1944. 16th Tank Brigade was organized on the basis of war-time Soviet armored brigade Table of Organization and Equipment No. 010/500 - 010/506 numbering 1354 soldiers. The units of the brigade were to comprise the following:
The corps took part in the Battle of Brody early in the campaign, and later saw action at Berdichev and Kirovograd. As did all German Corps on the Eastern Front, the XXXXVIII Motorized Corps implemented the criminal Commissar Order. [1] From late 1941 to May 1942, the corps took part in defensive operations in the Kursk area.