4th Guards Rifle Division
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The 4th Guards Rifle Division was reformed as an elite infantry division on September 18, 1941, from the 1st formation of the 161st Rifle Division as one of the original Guards formations of the Red A
A counterattack by Soviet infantry and tanks of the 18th Guards Tank Corps.
Soviet troops in the Vienna Offensive
40th Guards Rifle Division
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The 40th Guards Rifle Division was one of a series of ten Guards rifle divisions of the Red Army formed from airborne troops in the spring and summer of 1942 in preparation for, or in response to, the
4th Guards Rifle Division
…played a largely sacrificial role, attacking the defenses of XI Corps frontally to cover the rapid advance of 21st Army while Batov held his 4th and 40th Guards and 23rd Rifle Divisions in reserve. On November 23 the two Guards divisions were committed against the well-developed defenses of four reinforced…
Vasily Kochetkov, a soldier of the division killed at Stalingrad and posthumously awarded the Order of Lenin