103rd Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
The 103rd Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army.
It fought in the Winter War with Finland 1940. Converted to motorized division March 1941. In October 1941, it was surrounded and destroyed in the Spas-Demensky District (Vyazma Pocket).[1]
The division was reformed in January 1942 from the 463rd Rifle Division at Samarkand. The 103rd was composed of the 393rd, 583rd and 688th Rifle Regiments. It fought in the Second Battle of Kharkov during May 1942 but was surrounded and destroyed at Izyum May 1942. The division was officially disbanded on 30 June 1942.[2]
Recreated ?; with 2nd Rifle Corps in Transbaikal Front in January 1945.
References
- ↑ "103-я стрелковая дивизия" [103rd Rifle Division]. rkka.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 1 Jan 2016.
- ↑ "103-я (ф. 1941) стрелковая дивизия -" [103rd (1941) Rifle Division - Home of the Club "Memory" Voronezh State University]. samsv.narod.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2016-01-01.
- Poirer and Connor, Red Army Order of Battle
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