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The 3rd Shock Army (Russian: Третья ударная армия) was a field army of the Red Army formed during the Second World War. The "Shock" armies were created with the specific structure to engage and destroy significant enemy forces, and were reinforced with more armoured and artillery assets than other combined arms armies.
A month later, the 47th Army was disbanded, with its units withdrawn to the Soviet Union. In October the 5th Shock Army was disbanded. In 1947 the 3rd and 4th Guards Mechanized Divisions (Mobilization), former mechanized armies, arrived in the group from the Central Group of Forces. In 1954 the 3rd Shock Army became the 3rd Red Banner Combined ...
The Shock (Assault) Army was different in composition to other Combined Arms Armies between the 1960s and the 1980s. Title was actually 3rd Red Banner Army, rather than Shock, during Cold War. In the early 1990s the Army included the 7th, 10th, 12th, and 47th Guard Tank Divisions. 4th Shock Army: 25/12/1941: 1945
The 3rd Army was formed on 15 September 1939 from the Vitebsk Group of Forces, [1] part of the Belorussian Front, which had been formed four days earlier from the Belorussian Special Military District for the Soviet invasion of Poland. The army was commanded by Komkor Vasily Kuznetsov. [2]
The 79th joined the 3rd Shock Army of the 2nd Baltic Front in October, with which it remained for the rest of the war, and was assigned the 146th and 326th Rifle Divisions [4] under the command of Major General Fyodor Zuyev from 15 October. [5]
The Companion cavalry of Alexander the Great (356-326 BC) are described as being the first example of shock cavalry being used in Europe. [1]During the Paraguayan War (1864–1870), in which Paraguay fought against Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay, the Paraguayans deployed shock troops (composed of a mixture of dismounted cavalry and fit men who could row and swim) armed with sabres, cutlasses ...
Staff of Third Army". The camp would be liberated 3 days later. Image credits: nyg1 #5. ... To their shock, Paramount agreed to the budget. Image credits: TirelessGuardian #34.
Soviet IS-2 in Stargard, 19 March 1945. Zhukov's right wing—a grouping of the 3rd Shock Army and 1st and 2nd Guards Tank Armies—went over to the offensive on 1 March, striking northward with the main force concentrated at Reetz.