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Battle of Bryansk (1941)

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This forced the Red Army's 50th and 13th Armies and the Operational Group of General Major A.N. Yermakov to withdraw in order to avoid encirclement, and consequently Bryansk was evacuated without significant fighting. Regardless of this, the city was subjected to heavy artillery and air bombardment
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precious time to rush in reinforcements south of Moscow, stabilizing the front. When Guderian resumed the drive, he failed to capture Tula, and instead opted to bypass the city. This put a severe logistical constraint on the rest of the Moscow campaign. When Stalin ordered the Moscow
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back from the approaches to Moscow. The offensives were conducted over poor terrain against units in strong defensive positions and nearly all of them were disasters that seriously weakened Red Army formations defending the approaches to Moscow.
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strategy, with the Front's reserves consisting of two rifle, one tank division and one tank brigade concentrated in the Bryansk area. However, in the course of the operation the troops of the XXXXVII Corps took
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from Moscow, in violation of a direct order from Hitler. This resulted in Guderian's dismissal in January 1942. In honor of its determined stand, Tula was awarded the title of
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north of Bryansk. However the encircled Red Army units continued fighting, delaying the drive on Moscow for two weeks. This delay, as well as the casualties taken by the
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By virtue of Guderian's one-armed encirclement, the Germans had destroyed all of the Red Army forces defending the southern approaches to Moscow, opening the way to
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of the raid and "became obsessed with creating a submachine gun that would drive the Germans from his homeland. Many believe the myth he mostly just copied the
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and were able to advance to east of the city on 6 October while trying to link up with the XXXXIII Corps coming from the opposite direction.
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ordered Red Army formations around Smolensk and Bryansk to conduct frontal assaults on Army Group Center in an effort to drive the
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were ordered to halt so that the infantry could catch up and liquidate the pocket. Further to the north,
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in the region southwest of Moscow. During the breakthrough attack, the German troops broke through the
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In September 1941, the German troops of XLVII. Armeekorps (mot.) (commander General of Panzer troops
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Counter-Attack in December, Red Army control of Tula forced Guderian to withdraw the
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where his division was part of the 8th Mechanized Corps that encountered the German
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liquidating the pockets contributed to the German collapse at the gates of
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During the "lull" in the offensive, the Red Army General Staff, the
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with few casualties thereby encircling two Soviet formations, the
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were ordered to dig in and wait for their flanks to be secured.
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be diverted south. Army Group Centre's infantry formations, the
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attacked in an unexpected direction capturing Bryansk and
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German armoured forces race towards Vyazma, October 1941.
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After the successful encirclement of the reconstituted
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on 30 September, during the operation to encircle the
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supplemental timeline information from Feldgrau.com
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Index

Eastern Front
World War II

Bryansk
Soviet Union
Germany
Soviet Union
Nazi Germany
Fedor von Bock
Nazi Germany
Heinz Guderian
Nazi Germany
Maximilian von Weichs
Soviet Union
Andrey Yeryomenko
Soviet Union
Semyon Timoshenko
Soviet Union
Georgy Zhukov

2nd Army

2nd Panzer Army
Soviet Union
50th Army
Soviet Union
13th Army
Soviet Union
3rd Army
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