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The 69th Rifle Division was originally a Red Army motorised infantry and, briefly, a tank division that was reorganised in 1941 - 42 as a standard rifle division. The division distinguished itself in at least two battles. It was credited with the liberation of the town of Sevsk on 26 August 1943. On 15 October 1943 it made a successful assault crossing of the Dnepr River south of Gomel; 21 officers and men of the division were decorated as Heroes of the Soviet Union for this action. == 1st Formation == The division was first organized as the 69th Motorized Rifle Division and was established at Kuibyshev in the Russian SFSR sometime in the early 1930s.〔Poirer and Connor〕 However, Crofoot and Avanziani write that the division was established at Khabarovsk, RSFSR, in early 1936 from a cadre provided by the 3rd Rifle Division (Soviet Union).〔Crofoot, Avanzani, Armies of the Bear, Vol. I, Part 2, p.113〕 It seems much more likely that Crofoot and Avanzani are correct, given their utilisation of original Russian source documentation rather than the Foreign Armies East data at the heart of Poirer and Connor's work. 69th Motorized was included in the 28th Army when it was formed in Arkhangelsk Military District in June, 1941, before being shipped south after the start of hostilities. Shortly after the start of Operation Barbarossa, it appears that (citing Soviet documents) 69th Motorized Division became 107th Tank Division on 17 July 1941.〔http://www.rkka.ru/handbook/reg/69md41.htm, accessed July 2011〕 The division was destroyed near Bryansk in October 1941 and disbanded. Glantz, ''Stumbling Colossus'', appears to indicate that the division was split into both the 107th and 108th Tank Divisions.〔Glantz, Stumbling Colossus, University Press of Kansas, 1998, 222, 231, and associated endnotes at 324-325 (notes 47-49).〕 Endnotes to Glantz's 1998 book indicate the 108th Tank division was in combat with the Bryansk Front circa 28 August 1941 to 4 September 1941, and on 28 August it had a strength of 62 tanks (5 KVs, 32 T-34s, and 25 T-40s).〔Glantz 1998, page 325, note 49.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「69th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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