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

6. Die wichtigsten Panzerkampfwagen der Union der Sozialistischen Sovietrepubliken (U.S.S.R), 1 June 1941, Panzerarmee 3, Ic Anlagen Band A, Teil I z. Tatigkeitsbericht Nr. 2, NAM (National Archives Microfilm), series T-313, Roll 222.

7. Richard W. Harrison, Architect of Soviet Victory in World War II: The Life and Theories of G.S. Isserson (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Publishers, 2010), pp. 60–121.

8. Mikhail N. Tukhachevsky, ‘What is New in the Development of Red Army Tactics’, in The Soviet Art of War, Harriet F. Scott and William F. Scott (eds.), (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1982), pp. 56–9.

9. Mary R. Habeck, Storm of Steel: The Development of Armour Doctrine in Germany and the Soviet Union, 1919–1939 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003).

10. Renamed GABTU in 1940.

11. Wolfgang Schneider, Panzer Tactics: German Small-Unit Armor Tactics in World War II (Mechanichsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2005), p. 293.

12. Arthur Wollschlaeger, ‘The Raid on Orel’, in Knights Cross Panzers (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2010), p. 127.

13. Artem Drabkin & Oleg Sheremet, T-34 in Action (Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Ltd, 2006), pp. 61–2.

Chapter 1: The Opposing Armoured Forces in 1941

1. To be renamed panzer armies between October 1941 and January 1942.

2. Some German armoured formations were already referring to themselves as Panzerkorps in 1941, but the change from Armeekorps (mot.) was not standardized until June 1942.

3. Taktische Gliederung des Regiments [Tactical Organization of the Regiment], Panzer-Regiment 18, 18.Panzer-Division, Ia, Anlage z. KTB, NAM (National Archives Microfilm), series T-315, Roll 708, Frame 258.

4. Panzergruppe 4, O.Qu., Anlagenband 3 z-KTB, NAM (National Archives Microfilm), series T-313, Roll 336, Frame 8618121.

5. Ibid.

6. A cubic meter of fuel (cbm or m³), was equivalent to 5,000 liters and weighed 739kg.

7. Hugh Trevor-Roper (ed.), Hitler’s War Directives 1939–1945 (London: Birlinn Ltd, 2004), p. 138.

8. Charles C. Sharp, The Deadly Beginning: Soviet Tank, Mechanized, Motorized Divisions and Tank Brigades of 1940–1942, Soviet Order of Battle World War II, Volume 1 (George F. Nafziger, 1995), pp. 10–14.

9. Excluding tankettes and obsolete foreign-built tanks.

10. Mechanized Corps of the Red Army website, http://mechcorps.rkka.ru/files/mechcorps/pages/12_meh.htm.

11. The same Andrey Vlasov who was captured in July 1942 and turned traitor, collaborating with the Germans to form the anti-Communist Russian Liberation Army (ROA).

12. Artem Drabkin and Oleg Sheremet, T-34 in Action (Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Books, Ltd, 2006), p. 34.

13. David Glantz, Stumbling Colossus (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1998), pp. 176–8.

14. Glantz, Stumbling Colossus, p. 166.

Chapter 2: The Dynamic of Armoured Operations in 1941

1. David Glantz, The Initial Period of War on the Eastern Front, 22 June–August 1941 (London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd, 1993), pp. 103.

2. David Glantz, The Initial Period of War on the Eastern Front, 22 June–August 1941 (London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd, 1993), pp. 83–5.

3. Werner Haupt, Die 8.Panzer-Division im 2.Weltkrieg (Eggolsheim: Podzun-Pallas Verlag, 1987), pp. 137–40.

4. Harold S. Orenstein (ed.), ‘Combat Documents of the Soviet Northwestern Front, 21 June–1 July 1941’, The Journal of Soviet Military Studies, Vol. 5, No. 2, June 1992, pp. 267–99.

5. Erhard Raus, Panzer Operations (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2003), pp. 14–34.

6. Werner Haupt, Die 8.Panzer-Division im 2.Weltkrieg (Eggolsheim: Podzun-Pallas Verlag, 1987), p. 153.

7. Generalmajor Horst Ohrloff, ‘XXXIX Motorized Corps Operations’ in David M. Glantz (ed.), The Initial Period of War on the Eastern Front, 22 June–August 1941 (Portland, OR: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd, 1997), pp. 167–83.

8. la, Kriegstagebuch 1 and 2, May 25–13 July 1941, XXIV Armeekorps (mot.), NAM (National Archives Microfilm), series T-314, Roll 715.