Companion to Colossus Reborn: Key Documents and StatisticsA volume for Glantzophiles and anyone else who would like a richer and more complete documentary and statistical foundation for Colossus Reborn. Its contents include key documents relating to the every-day lives of the Red Army's soldiers, a full roster of the senior command cadre during wartime, a description of the army's weaponry and equipment, and an exhaustively detailed listing of the Red Army's and NKVD's order of battle at six crucial points from June 22, 1941, through December 31, 1943. |
Contents
Preface | 1911 |
NKO Order No 307 9 October 1942 | 1927 |
Extract from NKO Order No 298 28 September 1942 | 1933 |
NKO Order No 47 30 January 1943 | 1939 |
NKVD FORCES AND OTHER SPECIALIZED | 1962 |
Identified Wartime NKVD Brigades | 131 |
Representative Red Army Wartime Construction Forces | 138 |
Antitank Guns | 144 |
RiverCrossing Equipment Tactical Bridging | 150 |
16 | 157 |
January 1942 | 165 |
July 1942 | 182 |
February 1943 | 204 |
July 1943 | 234 |
December 1943 | 270 |
Abbreviations | 307 |
Common terms and phrases
AAABn AAAD AAAR AAAtr AAMGR AbnB ABns AcBn AeroSBn Air Army April Artillery AtrBn August battalion Belo Fronts Briansk Cavalry Commissar Continued Fronts Convoy Forces Security December disbanded Division of NKVD February Front Oct Fronts and Armies GMBn gody Velikoi Otechestvennoi GunAB GunAR HowAB HowAR HowARhp January July June Karelian Front LBAR Leningrad Front Major General Lieutenant March Military District Moscow Moscow Military District MtcBn MtcR MtrB MtrBn MtrR NBAD NKVD Border Guards NKVD Convoy Forces NKVD Internal Forces NKVD Motorized Rifle NKVD Railroad Security North Caucasus North Caucasus Front November October Patriotic War PBBn Railroad Security Division Red Army reorganized Rifle Regiments September 1942 Stalingrad Front Tank and Mechanized Tank Forces TDBn Ukr Fronts Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny VNOSBn voisk v gody Western Front