• The 73rd Silesia Rifle Corps (Russian: 73-й стрелковый Силезский корпус) was a rifle corps of the Red Army during World War II. The corps headquarters...
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  • 50th Rifle Corps, and in March 1944 transferred to command the 73rd Rifle Corps. He was made a Hero of the Soviet Union for his leadership of the 73rd Rifle...
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  • Corps. The 9th and 73rd Mountain Rifle Divisions became motor rifle divisions. In 1960, the 29th Army Corps was at Krasnodar and had the 9th and 73rd...
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  • century. Rifle corps were made up of a varying number of rifle divisions, although the allocation of three rifle divisions to a rifle corps was common...
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  • period, he served in both command and staff positions and commanded the 73rd Rifle Division when Operation Barbarossa began. Akimov was wounded and trapped...
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  • command of the 254th Rifle Division. Later, during World War II, he commanded the 73rd Rifle Corps (1943–1944) and the 128th Rifle Corps (1944–1945). After...
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    The Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army formed in January 1800 as the "Experimental Corps of Riflemen"...
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  • The 73rd Rifle Division was a formation of the Great Patriotic War Soviet Army. The division began assigned to the 20th Army at the beginning of the war...
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  • Corps, the 48th Rifle Corps (116th and 294th Rifle Divisions), the 73rd Rifle Corps (50th, 111th and 254th Rifle Divisions) and the 78th Rifle Corps (31st...
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    Permission was granted and on 2 March 1868 the 49th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers Corps (Post Office Rifles) was duly raised from the Post Office Companies...
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    1st Armored Corps Colonel General Konstantin Koroteyev 48th Rifle Corps 116th Rifle Division 294th Rifle Division 73rd Rifle Corps 50th Rifle Division 111th...
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    78th Rifle Corps 252nd Rifle Division 303rd Rifle Division 373rd Rifle Division 73rd Rifle Corps 31st Rifle Division 254th Rifle Division 294th Rifle Division...
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    48th Rifle Corps, and driving towards Spremberg. Major General M. K. Puteiko, commander of the 52nd Army's 254th Rifle Division of the 73rd Rifle Corps was...
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    The King's Royal Rifle Corps was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army that was originally raised in British North America as the Royal American...
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    Front 87th Rifle Corps 355th Rifle Division 113th Separate Rifle Brigade 56th Rifle Corps 2nd Rifle Brigade Kamchatka Defense Area 101st Rifle Division...
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  • division was withdrawn to Stryi as part of the 73rd Rifle Corps of the 52nd Army. On 25 July 1946, the 254th Rifle Division became the 27th Mechanized Division...
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  • The 73rd Guards Rifle Division was reformed as an elite infantry division of the Red Army in March 1943, based on the 2nd formation of the 38th Rifle Division...
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  • Mechanized Corps backed the 73rd Corps and restored the situation. In the buildup to the new summer offensive the 373rd remained in 73rd Rifle Corps but was...
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    13th Guards Rifle Division, 5th Guards Army and Mareseva served in a medical platoon in the 214th Guards Rifle Regiment, 73rd Guards Rifle Division, 7th...
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    6th Guards Rifle Corps 10th Guards Airborne Division 20th Guards Rifle Division 61st Guards Rifle Division 64th Rifle Corps 73rd Guards Rifle Division 113th...
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  • reassigned again, now to the 73rd Corps, still in 52nd Army. In January, 1944 it was moved to the 20th Guards Rifle Corps of 4th Guards Army, still in...
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  • 2016. Holm, Michael. "67th Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 3 May 2016. Holm, 73rd Motorised Rifle Division http://specnaz.pbworks...
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  • The 69th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army. It was part of the 20th Army. It took part in the Great Patriotic War. 73rd Rifle Division 229th...
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    Commandant of the newly formed Marine Corps and he was promoted to colonel on July 1, 1949.: 22–3  The ROKMC consisted of 2 rifle companies and a headquarters...
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  • Other forces included four Rifle Corps, two Mechanized Corps, seventeen Rifle Divisions, four Tank Divisions, two Motor Rifle Divisions, eight artillery...
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  • The Liverpool Press Guard was a Rifle Volunteer Corps raised in the city of Liverpool in Lancashire, North West England, in 1861. Initially drawn from...
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    Air Base 73rd Bridge Battalion 742th Fleet Signals Unit 302nd Fleet Radio-Electronic Regiment 14th Army Corps (Murmansk) 80th Arctic Motor Rifle Brigade...
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  • scare in 1859 led to the emergence of the Volunteer Movement, and Rifle Volunteer Corps (RVCs) composed of part-time soldiers eager to supplement the Regular...
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    Regiment. The same year the 73rd Guards MRR returned to its Second World War numbering, becoming the 1st Guards Motor Rifle Regiment. The division has...
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    creation of the Volunteer Force and huge enthusiasm for joining local Rifle Volunteer Corps (RVCs). The 26th (Customs & Excise) Middlesex RVC of four companies...
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