Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front, 1941-1942: Schwerpunkt

• 48th Army (General-major Grigoriy A. Khaliuzin)

○ 80th, 202nd Tank Brigades

• 5th Tank Army (General-major Aleksandr I. Liziukov) KIA – 23 July 1942

○ 2nd Tank Corps (General-major Andrei G. Kravchenko)

■ 26th, 27th, 148th Tank Brigades [183 tanks total]

○ 11th Tank Corps (General-major Aleksei F. Popov)

■ 53rd, 59th 160th Tank Brigades [191 tanks total]

○ 19th Tank Brigade [65 tanks]

• Front Forces:

○ 1st Tank Corps (General-major Mikhail E. Katukov)

■ 1st Guards, 49th, 89th Tank Brigades

○ 4th Tank Corps (General-major Vasily A. Mishulin)

■ 45th, 47th, 102nd Tank Brigades [179 tanks total]

○ 16th Tank Corps (General-major Mikhail I. Pavelkin)

■ 107th, 109th, 164th Tank Brigades [181 tanks]

○ 17th Tank Corps (General-major Ivan P. Korchagin)

■ 66th, 67th, 174th Tank Brigades [145 tanks total]

○ 24th Tank Corps (General-major Vasily M. Badanov)

■ 4th Guards, 54th, 130th Tank Brigades [141 tanks total]

○ 115th, 116th, 118th, 157th, 201st Tank Brigades

Southwestern Front (Marshal Semyon K. Timoshenko)

• 9th Army (General-major Feofan A. Parkhomenko)

○ 12th Tank Brigade and two OTBs [64 tanks total]

• 21st Army (General-major Aleksei I. Danilov)

○ 13th Tank Corps (General-major Petr E. Shurov) Died of wounds – 2 July 1942

■ 85th, 167th Tank Brigades [163 tanks total]

○ 10th Tank Brigade [38 tanks]

• 28th Army (General-major Vasily D. Kriuchenkin)

○ 23rd Tank Corps (General-major Abram M. Khasin)

■ 6th Guards, 91st, 114th Tank Brigades [128 tanks total]

○ 65th, 90th Tank Brigades [87 tanks total]

• 38th Army (General-major Kirill S. Moskalenko)

○ 22nd Tank Corps (General-major Aleksandr A. Shamshin)

■ 3rd, 13th, 36th Tank Brigades [49 tanks total]

○ 133rd, 156th, 159th, 168th Tank Brigades and one OTB [94 tanks total]

• Front Forces:

○ 14th Tank Corps (General-major Nikolai N. Radkevich)

■ 138th, 139th Tank Brigades

○ 57th, 58th, 84th, 88th, 158th, 176th Tank Brigades and two OTBs

Southern Front (General-leytenant Rodion Y. Malinovsky)

• 37th Army (General-major Petr M. Kozlov)

○ 121st Tank Brigade [46 tanks]

• 56th Army (General-major Aleksandr I. Ryzhov)

○ 63rd Tank Brigade [55 tanks]

• Front Forces:

○ 5th Guards, 15th, 140th Tank Brigades and two OTBs

North Caucasus Front (Marshal Semyon M. Budyonny)

• 51st Army (General-major Nikolai I. Trufanov)

○ 40th Tank Brigade

• Front Forces:

○ 136th, 137th Tank Brigades and two OTBs

Stavka Reserve [RVGK]

• 3rd Tank Army (General-leytenant Petr L. Romanenko)

○ 12th Tank Corps (General-major Semen I. Bogdanov)

■ 30th, 97th, 106th Tank Brigades

○ 15th Tank Corps (General-major Vasily A. Koptsov)

■ 96th, 105th, 113th Tank Brigades

○ 179th Tank Brigade

• 18th Tank Corps (General-major Ivan D. Chernyakhovsky)

○ 110th, 180th, 181st Tank Brigades [181 tanks]

• 2nd, 99th, 166th Tank Brigades

Moscow Military District

• 27th Tank Corps (General-major Fedor T. Remizov) – reformed into 1st Mechanized Corps in September 1942

○ 135th, 155th, 189th Tank Brigades

○ 117th, 119th, 134th, 153rd, 154th, 161st, 163rd, 169th, 193rd, 196th Tank Brigades and 26 OTBs

Stalingrad Military District

• 6th, 39th, 55th, 56th, 173rd, 182nd, 191st Tank Brigades

Reinforcements:

July:

• 1st Tank Army (General-major Kirill S. Moskalenko), subordinated: 13 TC, 28 TC, 158 TB

• 25th Tank Corps (General-major Petr P. Pavlov)

• 111th, 162nd, 175th Tank Brigades

• 26th Tank Corps (General-major Aleksei G. Rodin)

• 28th Tank Corps (General-major Georgy S. Rodin)

August:

• 4th Tank Army (General-major Vasily D. Kriuchenkin), subordinated: 22 TC, 23 TC, 133 TB

December:

• 19th Tank Corps (Podpolkovnik S. A. Vershkovich)

• 20th Tank Corps (Polkovnik Dmitri M. Gritsenko)

Appendix VI Tank Production, 1942

Germany

Tank Engines: Friedrichshafen (Maybach Motorenbau: Maybach HL 120 TRM and Maybach HL210); Berlin (Norddeutsche Motorenbau).

New tanks:

• Pz.III Ausf L with 5-cm KwK 39 L/60 introduced in June 1942, improved Pz.III Ausf M introduced in October 1942.

• Pz.III Ausf N with 7.5-cm KwK 37 L/42 howitzer introduced in June 1942.

• Pz.IV Ausf F2 with 7.5-cm KwK 40 L/43 introduced in April 1942.

• Pz.IV Ausf G with 7.5-cm KwK 40 L/48 introduced in June 1942.

• Pz.VI Tiger with 8.8-cm KwK 36 L/56 introduced in August 1942.

Soviet Union

Manufacturing Centers: CTZ, Chelyabinsk (KV-1); STZ, Stalingrad (T-34); Zavod 112, Gorky (T-34); Zavod 183, Nizhniy Tagil (T-34); Zavod 174, Omsk (T-34); GAZ, Gorky (T-60, T-70); Zavod 38, Kirov (T-60, T-70); Zavod 37, Sverdlovsk (T-60, T-70).

Tank Engines: V-2 Diesel engine (CTZ, Chelyabinsk).

New tanks:

• T-34/76 Model 1942 introduced in January 1942.

• T-70 with 45mm 20K Model 1938 L/46 introduced in March 1942.

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