The 27th Panzer Division is a military unit of the USSR Armed Forces in the Great Patriotic War . The period of hostilities: from June 22, 1941 to August 1, 1941 [1] .
 27th Panzer Division | |
| Troops: | land |
| Type of army: | auto arm tank |
| Formation: | March 1941 |
| Disbanding (transformation): | August 1, 1941 |
| Fighting way | |
| 1941: Belarus | |
Content
Division History
The division was formed in March 1941 in the Novogrudok area, on the basis of the 28th tank regiment of the 4th Cavalry Division , other units and personnel of this division, as well as the personnel of the Cossack divisions of the North Caucasian Military District as part of the 17th mechanized corps . On June 22, 1941, it was stationed in Novogrudok, with the exception of the 27th motorized rifle regiment and the 27th pontoon battalion, which were deployed in nearby villages. [2]
By the beginning of the war, the division was not formed, had no material part, except for one BT-5 [3] The division had four armored vehicles. Only about a third of the division’s personnel (about 9,000) were armed with rifles. [4] Ammunition and means of transport were also lacking.
By night from June 24 to 25, 1941, the division entered the Baranavichy area. Most of the division, which had no weapons, headquarters, rear structures, as well as heavy weapons (howitzers, anti-aircraft mounts), to which there was no ammunition, were concentrated in the forest 18 kilometers from Baranovichi. An armed third of the division (up to 3,000 soldiers) took up defense on the western outskirts of Baranavichy. On June 26, 1941, the part of the division that occupied the defense came under attack from the tank units of the Wehrmacht and was dispersed. The remnants of the division began to withdraw in the direction of Stolbtsy , to the town of Mir (18 west of Stolbtsy), where the corps command was located. However, no command of the corps was found, and the division, being subjected to shelling, went to the Uzd . By that time, it was no longer an integral combination: even the command staff of the division was dispersed (for example, the division commander with a group of soldiers went to his own in late July 1941 in the Smolensk region). The scattered remnants of the division were assembled by its commissar in Uzda and were redirected to Pukhovichi , and then in the direction of Borisov .
On August 1, 1941, the division was excluded from the lists of the active army.
According to some data [5], on the basis of the remains of the division’s personnel in September 1941, the 147th tank brigade was formed
Submission
| date | Front District | Army | Case (group) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 22, 1941 | Western front | - | 17th Mechanized Corps | - |
| July 01, 1941 | Western front | - | 17th Mechanized Corps | - |
| July 10, 1941 | Western front | - | 17th Mechanized Corps | - |
| August 01, 1941 | Western front | - | 17th Mechanized Corps | - |
Composition
- 53rd tank regiment
- 54th Tank Regiment
- 27th Motorized Rifle Regiment
- 27th howitzer artillery regiment
- 27th reconnaissance battalion
- 27th Separate Anti-aircraft Artillery Division
- 27th Independent Communication Battalion
- 27th motor battalion
- 27th repair and restoration battalion
- 27th pontoon battalion
- 60th Medical Battalion
- 27th company regulation
- 27th Field Car Bakery
- 736th Field Mail Station
- 598th box office of the State Bank
Commanders
- Akhmanov, Alexei Osipovich , Colonel
Notes
- ↑ Memory of the people :: Combat Path of a military unit :: 27 Panzer Division (27 TD) . pamyat-naroda.ru. The appeal date is July 22, 2019.
- The deployment of parts of the Western Special Military District on 05/30/1941
- ↑ 1941. Defeat of the Western Front (fb2) | coollib.com
- ↑ 27th Panzer Division - Fighting of the Red Army in World War II Archived December 22, 2014 on Wayback Machine Archived December 22, 2014.
- ↑ How to untangle confusion in armored troops, in 1941