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    The 255th Infantry Division (German: 255. Infanterie-Division) was an infantry division of the German Heer during World War II. The 255th Infantry Division...
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    The 90th Light Infantry Division was a light infantry division of the German Army during World War II that served in North Africa as well as Sardinia...
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  • rebuilt as standard infantry divisions due to the chronic manpower shortages of the Wehrmacht in this period. Security divisions were often made up of...
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    The division consisted of the following units: Headquarters, 63rd Infantry Division 253rd Infantry Regiment 254th Infantry Regiment 255th Infantry Regiment...
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  • Rifle Division 252nd Division Israeli 252nd Armored Division (1973) Yom Kippur War) 252nd Rifle Division (Soviet Union) 255th Division 255th Infantry Division...
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  • 251st Infantry Division 252nd Infantry Division 253rd Infantry Division 254th Infantry Division 255th Infantry Division 256th Infantry Division (Later...
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    German: [heːɐ̯] ; lit. 'army') was the land forces component of the Wehrmacht, the regular armed forces of Nazi Germany, from 1935 until it effectively...
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  • Mot.Div., 3rd Mot.Div. [352] 9th Army (Strauss) XXVII Army Corps (Wager) 255th ID, 162nd ID, 86th ID V Army Corps (Ruoff) 5th ID, 35th ID, 106th ID, 129th...
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    the south of France by the renaming and reorganization of the 60th Infantry Division which had been destroyed at Stalingrad. Most of the recruits had previously...
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    Indian Army during World War II (category Indian World War II divisions)
    of Elephant Point (5th and 17th Infantry, and 44th Indian Airborne Division; 2nd and 36th British Divisions; and 255th Indian Tank Brigade) was the name...
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  • In the German Wehrmacht before and during World War II, infantry divisions were raised as part of a designated Aufstellungswelle (deployment wave) or Welle...
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    had been formed from elements contributed by the 112th, 255th, and 332nd Infantry Divisions. Tessin, pp. 26–27. Zetterling & Frankson, p. 37 Zetterling...
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    had resulted in a shortage in infantry and artillery. Units were in total 470,000 men understrength. For the Wehrmacht to undertake an offensive in 1943...
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  • The Freiwilligen-Stamm-Division (transl. Volunteer Depot Division) was a Wehrmacht infantry division during World War II. It was created on 1 February...
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  • subordinate to the Wehrmacht. From 1943 they were called Police Battalions, with 3,000 serving in them. In 1944 they were transformed into two infantry battalions...
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    Corps 79th Rifle Division 2nd Rifle Brigade 5th Rifle Brigade 214th Tank Brigade 113th Rifle Brigade 255th Composite Aviation Division (106 aircraft) Pacific...
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  • "Lithuanian" Reserve Rifle Division (Lithuanian: 50-oji lietuviškoji šaulių atsargos divizija) was a short-lived infantry division of the Red Army at the...
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  • Army colonel and a Hero of the Soviet Union. Visaitov was commander of 255th Separate Chechen–Ingush cavalry regiment during World War II. He was the...
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  • Walter Poppe (category Lieutenant generals of the German Army (Wehrmacht))
    War leading the 59th Infantry Division. On 12 January 1942, he succeeded Wilhelm Wetzel as command of the 255th Infantry Division between the Eastern Front...
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  • southeast of Oryol. This brought the division into the path of the Wehrmacht's Operation Citadel. The division fought in the Battle of Kursk, where it...
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  • name of three distinct army groups of the Heer, the ground forces of the Wehrmacht, during World War II. The first Army Group A, previously known as "Army...
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    promoted to Oberstleutnant (lieutenant colonel) and assigned to command the 255th Combat Wing stationed at Landsberg am Lech. Promoted to Oberst (Colonel)...
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    bank of the river, the 17th Indian Division and the 255th Indian Armoured brigade crossed through 7th Indian Division's bridgeheads and began advancing to...
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    Division (Russian: 13-я гвардейская стрелковая Полтавская ордена Ленина дважды Краснознамённая орденов Суворова и Кутузова дивизия) was an infantry division...
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  • Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army, formed three times. It was first formed in 1939. It was converted into a motorized division and...
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  • (2007). German Order of Battle: 291st-999th Infantry Divisions, Named Infantry Divisions, and Special Divisions in World War II. Stackpole Books. ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0...
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  • The 253rd Rifle Division was formed in the Odessa Military District as a reserve infantry division of the Red Army about two weeks after the German invasion...
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  • subordinate to the Wehrmacht. From 1943 they were called Police Battalions, with 3,000 serving in them. In 1944 they were transformed into two infantry battalions...
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    The 39th Guards Motor Rifle Division of the Soviet Ground Forces was a mechanised infantry division active from 1965 to 1992. It was originally formed...
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  • battle as the previous formation. The division included 10,373 men, including cadres from the Barnaul and Saratov Infantry Schools, men from other Volga Military...
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