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The 26th Army's Corps' would be layered in two belts whose defensive preparations had originally begun back on 11 February, [54] prior to any sign of German offensive intentions. The 57th Army's one Guards Rifle and one Rifle Corps were spread along a 60 km front and 10–15 km deep; the Army would receive another Rifle Corps during the ...
[8] [9] The Allies lost 305 aircraft destroyed and 190 aircraft damaged. [10] A further 15 Allied aircraft were shot down and ten damaged. A further six were downed by other causes. [11] Manrho and Pütz have also deduced that only 17 German aircraft are certain to have been shot down by German Flak. Even if aircraft with unknown fates are ...
8–9 August: The Red Army Air Force began a limited bombing offensive with a raid on Berlin. [ 22 ] 15 August : Robert Stanford Tuck led the first air mission by fighters based in eastern England against enemy-occupied territories in a " Rhubarb " sweep of the Netherlands for ground targets by two Hawker Hurricanes .
Three of the 9th Army's formations were tasked with defending the Seelow Heights, which was the last defensible region before Berlin. To the north was the CI Army Corps , in the centre General Helmuth Weidling's LVI Panzer Corps , and to south of the Heights was the XI SS Panzer Corps .
The German Offensive of 1918 (2001) Marix Evans, Martin (2002) 1918: The Year of Victories, Arcturus Military History Series, London: Arcturus, ISBN 0-572-02838-5; Middlebrook, Martin. The Kaiser's Battle: 21 March 1918: The First Day of the German Spring Offensive. Penguin. 1983. ISBN 0-14-017135-5; Zabecki, David T. (2006) The German 1918 ...
The Battle of Halbe (German: Kesselschlacht von Halbe, Battle of the Halbe Pocket; Russian: Хальбский котёл, Halbe pocket) was a battle lasting from April 24 – May 1, 1945 [2] in which the German Ninth Army—under the command of General Theodor Busse—was destroyed as a fighting force by the Red Army during the Battle of Berlin.
Though the 9th Army conducted many local counter-attacks, they were all brushed aside; the 69th Army ruptured the last lines of defence and took Radom, while the 2nd Guards Tank Army moved on Sochaczew and the 1st Guards Tank Army was ordered to seize bridgeheads over the Pilica and attack towards Łódź. [21]
The 10th Army (German: 10. Armee) was a World War II field army of the Wehrmacht (Germany).. A new 10th Army was activated in 1943 in response to the Allied invasion of Italy. It saw action notably in late 1943 and early 1944 along the "Winter Line" at the Battle of San Pietro Infine and the Battle of Monte Cassino, before finally surrendering near the Al