6th Army (Soviet Union)
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The 6th Soviet Army started the war as part of the Soviet Southwestern Front. The army's headquarters was disbanded 10 August 1941 after the Battle of Uman. In this battle, the 6th Soviet Army was caught in a huge encirclement south of Kiev along with the 12th Soviet Army. The 6th Army was reformed by the Soviets twice in 1941 and reformed twice again in 1942. [1]
In January of 1943, the 6th Army smashed through the Alpini of the Italian 8th Army as part of Operation Little Saturn.
By February of 1945, the 6th Army was besieging Festung Breslau in the Battle of Breslau.
After the end of World War II, the 6th Army was withdrawn from Germany and stationed briefly in the Orlovskiy Military District before being disbanded in the Voronezh Military District late in 1945. It was reformed in the Leningrad Military District in 1960 with headquarters at Petrozavodsk and disbanded finally after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1997-98.
[edit] References
- ^ Glantz, 2005, p.712n98, 100
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