The 108th Guards Rifle Division was formed as an elite infantry division of the Red Army in July 1943, based on the 4th Guards Rifle Brigade and the 10th Guards Rifle Brigade and was the first of a sm
Start of Soviet counteroffensive. Note position of 27th Army.
The 4th Guards Motor Rifle Division was a motorized infantry division of the Soviet Army during the Cold War.
108th Guards Rifle Division
…mortars per kilometre of the Corps' attack frontage. In direct fire support the 46th Army also had a battalion of 23 captured self-propelled guns. The 4th Guards Mechanized Corps formed the mobile group to exploit the Army's breakthrough. The offensive began on August 20. On that first day the two Corps broke through the German…
Deputy commander for political affairs of the 13th Tank Corps' 61st Mechanized Brigade Yakov Lyashko addresses a formation of submachine gunners, January 1943
Soviet tank crews during the winter of 1942–1943
Tankers of the corps preparing for an attack in Romania, 1944
A Soviet tank crew discussing plans during the Budapest Offensive