1st Guards Cavalry Corps
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1st Guards Cavalry Zhytomyr Red Banner Corps was a military unit of the Soviet Red Army which was renamed from the 2nd Cavalry Corps. Led by Pavel Belov it was involved in several colossal combat operations during the Great Patriotic War, with its most stupendous accomplishments seen during the Battle of Moscow.
Soviet Cavalrymen of the 2nd Cavalry Corps receiving the honorary "Guards" title, 26 November 1941
Horsemen of the 1st Guards Cavalry Corps riding victoriously during the Moscow Counteroffensive Phase, 22 December 1941
Soviet cavalrymen, presumably soldiers of the corps, entering a liberated town.
The 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich or SS Division Das Reich was an armored division of the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War II.
The division near Kirovograd, Soviet Union, December 1943, two Tiger tanks
Division's Tiger I tank, during the Battle of Kursk
Burned out cars and buildings still litter the untouched remains of the original village of Oradour-sur-Glane
Walter Krüger, Heinrich Himmler and Paul Hausser near Kharkov, Soviet Union, April 1943