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This article begins a three-part study into tactical level combat during the battle for Smolensk. The study traces the evolution and experiences of a Red Army rifle regiment from its formation through combat in the summer of 1941. Its objective is to infuse primary source documents dealing with combat at the regimental level and below to complement sections of Colonel David M. Glantz's extensive four-volume work on the battle of Smolensk, whose narrative volumes were published in 2009 and 2010. By focusing on a single rifle regiment and combat at the tactical level, we hope to provide an authentic and detailed view of life and combat in the Soviet (Red) Army during the earliest stage of the Soviet-German War.
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135927
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This article is the second installment of a three-part study into combat at the tactical level in the battle of Smolensk in 1941. The preceding article published in Journal of Slavic Military Studies (Volume 26, Issue 4) documented the formation, movement, and initial assignments given to 900th Rifle Regiment before it engaged the enemy. This article picks up with the regiment’s first engagement on 25 July 1941 against the elements of the German 3rd Panzer Group and takes us through 5 August 1941, when the regiment was engaged with elements of the German 9th Army and applied new tactics of night combat. Chronologically this article corresponds to events described in Barbarossa Derailed, Chapter 5: The First Soviet Counteroffensive, and the Struggle for the Smolensk Pocket 24–31 July 1941, and Chapter 7: Armeegruppe Guderian’s Destruction of Group Kachalov and the Reduction of the Smolensk Pocket, 31 July–6 August 1941.1
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