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Timofey Shapkin (March 5, 1885 – March 22, 1943) was a Soviet corps commander. He served in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I before going over to the Bolsheviks. He fought in the war against Poland.
In World War II, he commanded the 4th Cavalry Corps. In March 1943, he fell seriously ill and died on March 22 in a hospital in Rostov-on-Don from a cerebral hemorrhage.
Andrey (Andrei) Ivanovich Yeryomenko was a Soviet general during World War II and Marshal of the Soviet Union. During the war, Yeryomenko commanded the Southeastern Front during the Battle of Stalingrad in summer 1942 and planned the successful defense of the city. He later commanded the armies responsible for the liberation of Western Hungary and Czechoslovakia in 1945.
Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Gwynne Horrocks, was a British Army officer, chiefly remembered as the commander of XXX Corps in Operation Market Garden and other operations during the Second World War. He also served in the First World War and the Russian Civil War, was taken prisoner twice, and competed in the modern pentathlon at the 1924 Paris Olympics. Later he was a television presenter, wrote books on military history, and was Black Rod in the House of Lords for 14 years.
Pyotr Kirillovich Koshevoy was a Soviet military commander and a Marshal of the Soviet Union.
Semyon Konstantinovich Kurkotkin was a Soviet military commander and a Marshal of the Soviet Union.
General Sir Charles Frederic Keightley, was a senior British Army officer who served during and following the Second World War. After serving with distinction during the Second World War – becoming, in 1944, the youngest corps commander in the British Army – he had a distinguished postwar career and was the Governor of Gibraltar from 1958 to 1962.
The 270th Rifle Division was a Red Army infantry division formed twice during World War II, in 1941 and 1942.
Vasily Mikhailovich Badanov was a Soviet military officer and general, best known for his leadership in the Tatsinskaya Raid (1942) and subsequent command of the 4th Tank Army (1943–1944).
The 10th Guards Army was a Soviet Guards formation which fought against Germany during World War II under the command of several generals. Formed in 1943, the army fought under various headquarters and ended the war besieging cut-off German forces in Latvia. The 10th Guards Army was disbanded in 1948.
The 87th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army, active before, during the Second World War and afterwards.
The 308th Rifle Division was a rifle division of the Soviet Red Army during World War II. The division was formed three separate times during the course of the war.
The 13th Guards Army Corps was a corps of the Soviet Ground Forces, formed from the previous 13th Guards Rifle Corps, which saw service during the Second World War.
The 140th Rifle Division was a Red Army rifle division that saw service during the Great Patriotic War. Originally formed during the prewar buildup of the Red Army, the 140th might be regarded as the unluckiest division in the Army, as it, uniquely, had to be completely, or almost completely, re-formed three times between 1941 and 1943, being destroyed in the Uman pocket during Operation Barbarossa, the Vyasma pocket during Operation Typhoon, and on the Caucasian steppes in the face of the German summer offensive of 1942. In spite of this, the fourth formation of the 140th went on to have a very distinguished record in combat, a testament to the resiliency of the Red Army in World War II.
The 22nd Motor Rifle Division named for Atamyrat Niyazov is a division of the Turkmenistan Ground Forces. It traces its history to the 344th Rifle Division, an infantry division of the Red Army and the Soviet Ground Forces during World War II and the Cold War.
The 35th Guards Rifle Division was a division of the Soviet Red Army in World War II.
The 6th Guards Airborne Division was a Red Army airborne division that fought as infantry during World War II.
Aleksei Aleksandrovich Grechkin was a Soviet army commander.
The 263rd Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army during World War II.
The 260th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army during World War II, formed twice.
The 172nd Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army during World War II, formed thrice.
Sergey Ilyich Gorshkov was a Red Army lieutenant general who held division and corps command during World War II.
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