1st Guards Tank Division
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The 1st Guards Tank Division was a tank division of the Soviet Army from 1945 to 1947, stationed in Neuruppin. It was formed in the spring of 1942 as the 26th Tank Corps. The corps fought in Operation
Soviet tanks and infantry, probably from the 26th Tank Corps during the advance on Kalach
A column of T-34-85 tanks of the corps on a road in East Prussia, 13 January 1945
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1st Guards Tank Division
…class for its actions. From June, the corps fought in Operation Bagration. On 24 June, the corps advanced through the gap made by the advance of the 65th Army. By 27 June, the corps linked up with elements of the 9th Tank Corps, completing the encirclement of five German 9th Army divisions in the Bobruysk…
Postwar photo of Colonel-General Pavel Batov