Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front 1943-1945: Red Steamroller

• 10x SAP (735, 926, 927, 953, 954, 957, 958, 959, 1435, 1445)

○ 11th Guards Army (General-leytenant Kuzma N. Galitskiy)

○ 2nd Guards Tank Corps (General-leytenant Aleksei S. Burdeyniy)

○ 5th Tank Army (Marshal Pavel A. Rotmistrov)

○ 3rd Guards Tank Corps (General-major Ivan A. Vovchenko)

○ 29th Tank Corps (General-major Evgeny I. Fominykh)

○ 3rd Guards Cavalry Corps (General-leytenant Nikolai S. Oslikovskiy)

○ Front Reserve:

○ 3rd Guards Mechanized Corps (General-leytenant Viktor T. Obukhov)

2nd Byelorussian Front (General-polkovnik Georgiy F. Zakharov)

• 4x Tank Brigades (23 G, 42 G, 43 G; 256)

• 1x Tank Regiment (233)

• 7x SAP (722, 1196, 1197, 1444, 1819, 1830, 1902)

1st Byelorussian Front (Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky)

○ 2x Tank Brigades (1, 68)

○ 8x Tank Regiments (36, 42, 193, 223, 230, 231, 251, 259)

○ 16x SAP (713, 922, 925, 1204, 1205, 1206, 1221, 1295, 1812, 1821, 1888, 1890, 1897, 1899, 1900, 1901)

○ 3rd Army (General-leytenant Aleksandr V. Gorbatov)

○ 9th Tank Corps (General-major Boris S. Bakharov)

○ 65th Army (General-leytenant Pavel I. Batov)

○ 1st Guards Tank Corps (General-major Mikhail F. Panov)

○ 1st Mechanized Corps (General-leytenant Semyon M. Krivoshein)

Under Front control:

○ 8th Guards Tank Corps (General-leytenant Aleksei F. Popov)

○ 11th Tank Corps (General-major Filipp N. Rudkin)

○ 2nd Guards Cavalry Corps (General-leytenant Vladimir V. Kriukov)

○ 4th Guards Cavalry Corps (General-leytenant Issa A. Pliyev)

○ 7th Guards Cavalry Corps (General-major Mikhail P. Konstantinov)

1st Ukrainian Front (General Konstantin K. Rokossovsky)

• 1st Guards Tank Army

○ 8th Guards Mechanized Corps (General-major Ivan F. Dremov)

○ 11th Guards Tank Corps (General-leytenant Andrei L. Getman)

○ 64th Guards Tank Brigade

○ 11th Guards Tank Regiment

• 3rd Guards Tank Army

○ 6th Guards Tank Corps (General-major Vasily V. Novikov)

○ 7th Guards Tank Corps (General-major Sergei A. Ivanov)

○ 9th Mechanized Corps (General-leytenant Ivan P. Sukhov)

○ 91st Tank Brigade

○ 71st Guards Tank Regiment

• 4th Tank Army

○ 6th Guards Mechanized Corps (General-leytenant Aleksandr I. Akimov)

○ 10th Guards Tank Corps (General-major Evtikhii E. Belov)

○ 93rd Tank Brigade

○ 72nd Guards Tank Regiment

• 13th Army

○ 25th Tank Corps (General-major Fedor G. Anikushkin)

• 60th Army

○ 4th Guards Tank Corps (General-leytenant Pavel P. Poluboiarov)

○ 59th Tank Regiment

• 31st Tank Corps (General-major Vasily E. Grigoriev)

• 1x Tank brigade (150)

• 3x Tank Regiments (1G, 12 G; 39)

• 4x SAP (293 G; 1228, 1827, 1889)

2nd Ukrainian Front (General Rodion Ia. Malinovsky)

• 2nd Tank Army

○ 3rd Tank Corps (General-leytenant Vasily A. Mishulin)

○ 16th Tank Corps (General-major Ivan V. Dubovoi)

○ 11th Guards Tank Brigade

○ 754th, 1219th SAP

• 6th Tank Army (General-leytenant Andrei G. Kravchenko)

○ 5th Mechanized Corps (General-leytenant Mikhail V. Volkov)

○ 5th Guards Tank Corps (General-leytenant Vasily M. Alekseev)³

○ 156th Tank Regiment

○ 1494th SAP

• Under Front Control:

○ 7th Mechanized Corps (General-major Fedor G. Katkov)

○ 18th Tank Corps (General-major Vasily I. Polozkov)⁴

• 1x Tank Brigade (27 G)

• 2x Tank Regiments (25, 38)

3rd Ukrainian Front (General Fedor I. Tolbukhin)

• Under Front Control:

○ 4th Guards Mechanized Corps (General-major Vladimir I. Zhdanov)

○ 23rd Tank Corps (General-major Aleksei O. Akhmanov)

○ 5th Guards Mechanized Brigade

• 1x Tank Brigade (96)

• 2x Tank Regiments (5 G; 52)

• 6x SAP (398 G; 864, 1200, 1201, 1202, 1891)

STAVKA Reserve (RVGK)

• 10th Tank Corps (General-major Matvei K. Shaposhnikov)

• 19th Tank Corps (General-leytenant Ivan D. Vasiliev)

• 20th Tank Corps (General-leytenant Ivan G. Lazarev)

• 1st Guards Mechanized Corps (General-leytenant Ivan N. Russiyanov)

• 2nd Guards Mechanized Corps (General-leytenant Karp V. Sviridov)

• 5th Guards Mechanized Corps (General-major Boris M. Skvortsov)

• 7th Guards Mechanized Corps (General-leytenant Ivan P. Korchagin)

• 8th Mechanized Corps (General-major Abram M. Hasin)

Coastal Army (General-leytenant Kondrat S. Mel’nik)

• 1x Tank Brigade (63)

• 3x Tank Regiments (85, 244), 257)

• 1x SAP (1449)

Reinforcements:

December:

• 10th Mechanized Corps

Appendix VI Tank Production, 1944

Key Industrial Decisions, 1944

• December 1943 – January 1944, Utilize Czech production facilities to mass-produce the Jagdpanzer 38 tank destroyer.

• Spring 1944, VOMAG ceases Pz IV production in favor of Jagdpanzer IV. Only Nibelungenwerke still producing Pz IV.

• August 1944, Hitler order Pz IV tank production to cease by the end of 1944 and shift production resources to the Jagdpanzer IV program.