Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket order of battle
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This order of battle lists the Soviet and German forces involved in the Battle of the Korsun-Cherkassy_Pocket in January - February 1944.
| Front | Army | Corps | Division |
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| 1st Ukrainian Vatutin |
27th Army Trofimenko |
47th Rifle Corps | 38th Rifle Division |
| 136th Rifle Division |
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| 180th Rifle Division |
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| Subordinated to army | 206th Rifle Division |
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| 309th Rifle Division |
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| 337th Rifle Division |
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| 159th Fortified Region |
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| 40th Army Zhmachenko |
50th Rifle Corps | 74th Rifle Division |
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| 163rd Rifle Division |
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| 240th Rifle Division |
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| 51st Rifle Corps (to SW of pocket) |
167th Rifle Division |
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| 232nd Rifle Division |
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| 340th Rifle Division |
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| Subordinated to army | Czechoslovak Brigade |
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| 6th Tank Army Kravchenko |
5th Mechanized Corps |
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| 5th Guards Tank Corps |
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| Subordinated to front |
Direct front control |
42nd Guards Rifle Division |
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| 237th Rifle Division |
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| 389th Rifle Division |
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| 1st Guards Cavalry Corps |
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| 1st Guards Artillery Division |
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| 3rd Guards Rocket Launcher Division |
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| 2nd Ukrainian Konev |
4th Guards Army Ryzhov |
20th Guards Rifle Corps |
5th Guards Airborne Division |
| 66th Guards Rifle Division |
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| 375th Rifle Division |
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| 21st Guards Rifle Corps |
69th Guards Rifle Division |
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| 138th Rifle Division |
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| 52nd Army Koroteev |
73rd Rifle Corps |
7th Guards Airborne Division |
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| 62nd Guards Rifle Division |
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| 78th Rifle Corps |
254th Rifle Division |
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| 373rd Rifle Division |
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| Subordinated to army |
294th Rifle Division |
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| 5th Guards Tank Army Rotmistrov |
18th Tank Corps |
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| 29th Tank Corps |
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| Subordinated to front |
26th Guards Rifle Corps |
25th Guards Rifle Division |
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| 6th Rifle Division |
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| 31st Rifle Division |
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| Direct front control | 89th Guards Rifle Division |
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| 5th Guards Cavalry Corps |
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| 20th Tank Corps |
| Army Group | Army | Corps | Division |
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| South Manstein |
8th Army Wöhler |
XI Corps (encircled) | 5th SS Panzer Division |
| 5th SS Infantry Brigade |
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| 57th Infantry Division |
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| 72nd Infantry Division |
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| 389th Infantry Division |
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| XXXXVII Panzer Corps (relief force) |
3rd Panzer Division |
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| 11th Panzer Division |
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| 13th Panzer Division |
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| 14th Panzer Division |
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| 1st Panzer Army Hube |
XXXXII Corps (encircled) | Corps Detachment B |
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| 88th Infantry Division |
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| 1/3 of 168th Infantry Division |
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| III Panzer Corps (relief force) |
1st Panzer Division |
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| 16th Panzer Division |
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| 17th Panzer Division |
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| 1st SS Panzer Division |
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| 198th Infantry Division |
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| Bäke Heavy Tank Regiment |
References
Soviet: Soviet General Staff Official Orders of Battle for January and February 1944.
German: Frieser, Karl-Heinz. Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg, Volume 8, p. 398, München: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2007. ISBN 978-3-421-06235-2.
