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The tank brigade occupied an intermediate position between a tank regiment and tank divisions of the Red Army. A tank brigade can be separate, that is, formally not part of corps and Field army - in this case, the name of the brigade can have the adjective “separate” added.
8th Order of the Red Star Tank Army: 1946: 1993: Created in the Carpathian Military District, when elements of the 52nd and 18th Armies were reorganised as the 8th Mechanised Army. Parts of the Army participated in the suppression of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. The 8th Mechanised Army was redesignated the 8th Tank Army in 1957. 9th ...
The 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Tank Corps were to consist of a headquarters, two tank brigades, and a motor rifle brigade, authorized a total of 5,603 men with 20 KV heavy tanks, 40 T-34 medium tanks, and 40 T-60 or T-70 light tanks. The new tank corps lacked artillery, reconnaissance and engineer units, and rear support elements, although its ...
1st Leningrad Tank Brigade; 1st Separate Women's Volunteer Rifle Brigade; 1st Tank Brigade (Soviet Union) 44th Guards Cannon Artillery Brigade; 54th Rifle Brigade (Soviet Union) 76th Fortified Region; 83rd Corps Artillery Regiment; 87th Guards Rifle Regiment; 88th Separate Rifle Brigade; 100th Kazakh Rifle Brigade; 112th "Revolutionary Mongolia ...
On disbandment, elements reorganised as 16th Tank Brigade, which was later transferred bodily from the Red Army to the Polish Armed Forces in the East. See pl:16 Dnowsko-Łużycka Brygada Pancerna. 35th Tank Division – with 9th Mechanized Corps in June 1941. 36th Tank Division – with 17th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
"The Big Red One" of the 1st Infantry Division. 1st Infantry Division "The Big Red One" – from the division's official shoulder patch: Red numeral "1" on an olive drab shield. "The Fighting First" "The Big Dead One" 2nd Infantry Division "Warrior Division" – official nickname "Indian Head" – Official as of 1948.
This is a list of current formations of the United States Army, which is constantly changing as the Army changes its structure over time. Due to the nature of those changes, specifically the restructuring of brigades into autonomous modular brigades, debate has arisen as to whether brigades are units or formations; for the purposes of this list, brigades are currently excluded.
The Army's forces at the beginning of the offensive included 26th and 59th Rifle Corps, 6 rifle divisions, 3 tank brigades (75th, 77th, 257th), 3 SP regiments, 6 SP battalions, 1 heavy tank/SP gun regiment, 5 artillery brigades, and 410 tanks/SP guns and 1,413 guns/mortars. [8] The 6th and 112th Fortified Regions also formed part of the Army.