Battle of Moscow order of battle

The six German armies made up Army Group Centre, commanded by Feldmarshal Fedor von Bock.

North of Smolensk-Moscow Highway

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{{flagicon|Nazi Germany|1935}} German:

• Ninth Army and Panzergruppe 3

: 18 infantry divisions

:   3 panzer divisions

:   2 motorized infantry divisions

:   1 motorized brigade

:   1 flammpanzer battalion

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{{flagicon|Soviet Union|1936}} Soviet – front line:

• Western Front (Konev){{efn|Made Marshal of the Soviet Union in February 1944; following war, replaced Zhukov as commander of Soviet ground forces.}}

: 23 rifle divisions

:   1 mechanized division

:   1 tank brigade

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{{flagicon|Soviet Union|1936}} Soviet – deployed east:

• Reserve Front (Budyonny){{efn|One of the very few Tsarist officers to retain high rank in the Red Army.}}

:   9 rifle divisions

:   2 cavalry divisions

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Middle Sector

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{{flagicon|Nazi Germany|1935}} German:

• Fourth Army and Panzergruppe 4

: 15 infantry divisions

:   6 panzer divisions

:   2 motorized infantry divisions

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{{flagicon|Soviet Union|1936}} Soviet – front line:

• Western Front (cont.)

: 13 rifle divisions

:   2 cavalry divisions

:   2 mechanized divisions

:   4 tank brigades

• Reserve Front (cont.)

:   4 rifle divisions

:   1 cavalry division

:   1 mechanized division

:   4 tank brigades

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{{flagicon|Soviet Union|1936}} Soviet – deployed east:

• Reserve Front (cont.)

: 10 rifle divisions

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Bryansk and Points South

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{{flagicon|Nazi Germany|1935}} German:

• Second Army and Panzergruppe 2

: 14 infantry divisions

:   5 panzer divisions

:   4 motorized infantry divisions

:   1 cavalry division

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{{flagicon|Soviet Union|1936}} Soviet – front line:

• Bryansk Front (Yeryomenko)

: 26 rifle divisions

:   1 tank division

:   3 cavalry divisions

:   4 tank brigades

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{{flagicon|Soviet Union|1936}} Soviet – deployed east:

• none

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The six German armies made up Army Group Centre, commanded by Feldmarshal Fedor von Bock.

Armies deployed north to south

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German:

{{flagicon|Nazi Germany|1935}} Ninth Army

Colonel General Adolf Strauss

VIII Corps

:8th Infantry Division

:28th Infantry Division

:87th Infantry Division

XXIII Corps

:102nd Infantry Division

:206th Infantry Division

:251st Infantry Division

:256th Infantry Division

XXVII Corps

:86th Infantry Division

:162nd Infantry Division

:255th Infantry Division

Army Reserve

:161st Infantry Division

{{flagicon|Nazi Germany|1935}} Third Panzer Group

Colonel General Georg-Hans Reinhardt {{efn|Served 17 years for war crimes.}}

XLI Panzer Corps

:1st Panzer Division

:101st Panzer Battalion (Flamm Panzer)

:6th Infantry DivisionOrder of battle from Mitcham (vol. 1), p. 40.

:36th Motorized Infantry Division

LVI Motorized Corps

:6th Panzer DivisionOrder of battle from Mithcam (vol. 3), p. 15.

:7th Panzer Division

:14th Motorized Infantry Division

:129th Infantry Division

V Corps

:5th Infantry Division

:35th Infantry DivisionOrder of battle from Mitcham (vol. 1), p. 81.

:106th Infantry Division

VI Corps

:26th Infantry Division

:110th Infantry Division

Army Reserve

:900th Lehr (Motorized) Brigade

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Soviet – front line:

{{flagicon|Soviet Union|1936}} Western Front

Lieutenant General Ivan Konev{{efn|Made Marshal of the Soviet Union in February 1944; following war, replaced Zhukov as commander of Soviet ground forces.}}

22nd Army

Maj. Gen. Vasily Yushkevich

:126th Rifle Division

:133rd Rifle Division

:174th Rifle Division

:179th Rifle Division

:186th Rifle Division

:256th Rifle Division

:16th Guards mortar battery M-13

29th Army

Lt. Gen. Ivan Maslennikov

:178th Rifle Division

:243rd Rifle Division

:246th Rifle Division

:252nd Rifle Division

30th Army

Maj. Gen. Vasily Khomenko

:162nd Rifle Division

:242nd Rifle Division

:250th Rifle Division

:251st Rifle Division

:107th Mechanized Division

:30th Guards mortar battery M-13

19th Army

Lt. Gen. Mikhail Lukin

:50th Rifle Division

:89th Rifle Division

:91st Rifle Division

:166th Rifle Division

:244th Rifle Division

:1/10th Guards mortar regiment M-13

:19th Guards mortar battery M-13

16th Army

Lt. Gen. Konstantin Rokossovsky

:38th Rifle Division

:108th Rifle Division

:112th Rifle Division

:8th Guards Rifle Division

:127th Tank Brigade

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Soviet – deployed east:

{{flagicon|Soviet Union|1936}} Reserve Front

Marshal Semyon Budyonny{{efn|One of the very few Tsarist officers to retain high rank in the Red Army.}}

31st Army

Maj. Gen. Vasily Dalmatov

:5th Rifle Division

:110th Rifle Division

:119th Rifle Division

:247th Rifle Division

:249th Rifle Division

:unnumbered Guards mortar battery

49th Army

Lt. Gen. Ivan Zakharkin

:194th Rifle Division

:220th Rifle Division

:248th Rifle Division

:303rd Rifle Division

:29th Cavalry Division

:31st Cavalry Division

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Armies deployed north to south

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German:

{{flagicon|Nazi Germany|1935}} Fourth Army

Field Marshal Günther von Kluge {{efn|Committed suicide after being suspected in the 20 July Plot.}}

VII Corps

:7th Infantry Division

:23rd Infantry Division

:197th Infantry Division

:267th Infantry Division

IX Corps

:137th Infantry Division

:183rd Infantry Division

:263rd Infantry Division

:292nd Infantry DivisionMitcham (vol. 2), p. 3.

XX Corps

:15th Infantry Division

:78th Infantry Division

:268th Infantry Division

{{flagicon|Nazi Germany|1935}} Fourth Panzer Group

Colonel General Erich Hoepner {{efn|Executed after being implicated in the 20 July Plot.}}

XII Corps

:34th Infantry Division

:98th Infantry Division

XL Motorized Corps

:2nd Panzer DivisionOrder of battle from Mitcham.

:10th Panzer DivisionOrder of battle from Mitcham.

:258th Infantry Division

XLVI Motorized Corps

:5th Panzer DivisionOrder of battle from Mitcham (vol. 3), p. 12.

:11th Panzer DivisionMitcham (vol. 3), p. 30.

:252nd Infantry Division

LVII Panzer Corps

:SS Motorized Infantry Division Das Reich

:3rd Motorized Infantry Division

:19th Panzer DivisionOrder of battle from Mitcham.

:20th Panzer DivisionOrder of battle from Mitcham.

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Soviet – front line:

{{flagicon|Soviet Union|1936}} Western Front (cont.)

20th Army

Lt. Gen. Filipp Yershakov

:73rd Rifle Division

:129th Rifle Division

:144th Rifle Division

:229th Rifle Division

24th Army

(from Reserve Front)

Maj. Gen. Konstantin Rakutin

:19th Rifle Division

:103rd Mechanized Division

:106th Mechanized Division

:139th Rifle Division

:160th Rifle Division

:170th Rifle Division

:309th Rifle Division

:144th Tank Brigade

:146th Tank Brigade

:Other armoured formations:

::138th Tank Battalion

::139th Tank Battalion

::unnumbered Guards mortar battalion M-13

43rd Army

(from Reserve Front)

Maj. Gen. Pyotr Sobennikov

:53rd Rifle Division

:149th Rifle Division

:211th Rifle Division

:222nd Rifle Division

:145th Tank Brigade

:148th Tank Brigade

:42nd Guards mortar battalion M-13

Dovator's Cavalry Group

Maj. Gen. Lev Dovator{{efn|Killed in action 19 Sep during Zhukov's counteroffensive.}}

:40th Cavalry Division

:53rd Cavalry Division

Front Reserves

Lt. Gen. Ivan Boldin

:5th Guards Rifle Division

:134th Rifle Division

:214th Rifle Division

:152nd Rifle Division

:101st Mechanized Division

:126th Tank Brigade

:128th Tank Brigade

:143rd Tank Brigade

:147th Tank Brigade

:45th Cavalry Division

:2/10th Guards mortar regiment M-13

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Soviet – deployed east:

{{flagicon|Soviet Union|1936}} Reserve Front (cont.)

32nd Army

Maj. Gen. Sergey Vishnevsky

:2nd Rifle Division

:8th Rifle Division

:18th Rifle Division

:29th Rifle Division

:140th Rifle Division

33rd Army

Kombrig Dmitry Onuprienko

:17th Rifle Division

:60th Rifle Division

:113th Rifle Division

:139th Rifle Division

:173rd Rifle Division

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Armies deployed north to south

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German:

{{flagicon|Nazi Germany|1935}} Second Army

Colonel General Baron Maximilian von Weichs

XIII Corps

:17th Infantry Division

:260th Infantry Division

XLIII Corps

:52nd Infantry Division

:131st Infantry Division

LIII Corps

:31st Infantry Division

:56th Infantry DivisionOrder of battle from [http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Infanteriedivisionen/56ID.htm German Encyclopedia].

:167th Infantry Division

Army Reserve

:112th Infantry Division

{{flagicon|Nazi Germany|1935}} Second Panzer Group

Colonel General Heinz Guderian {{efn|Relieved by Hitler 25 Dec 1941; replaced by Rudolf Schmidt.}}

XXIV Panzer Corps

:3rd Panzer DivisionOrder of battle from Mitcham (vol. 3), p. 8.

:4th Panzer DivisionOrder of battle from Mitcham (vol. 3), p. 10.

:10th Motorized Infantry Division

XLVII Panzer Corps

:17th Panzer Division

:18th Panzer Division

:29th Motorized Infantry Division

XLVIII Panzer Corps

:9th Panzer Division

:16th Motorized Infantry Division

:25th Motorized Infantry Division

XXXIV Corps

:45th Infantry DivisionOrder of battle from Mitcham (vol. 1), p. 89.

:134th Infantry Division

XXXV Corps

:1st Cavalry Division

:95th Infantry Division

:262nd Infantry Division

:293rd Infantry Division

:296th Infantry Division

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Soviet – front line:

{{flagicon|Soviet Union|1936}} Bryansk Front

Lt. Gen. Andrey Yeryomenko

50th Army

Lt. Gen. Mikhail Petrov

:217th Rifle Division

:258th Rifle Division

:260th Rifle Division

:278th Rifle Division

:279th Rifle Division

:290th Rifle Division

:299th Rifle Division

:108th Tank Division

3rd Army

Maj. Gen. Yakov Kreizer

:137th Rifle Division

:148th Rifle Division

:269th Rifle Division

:280th Rifle Division

:282nd Rifle Division

:4th Cavalry Division

:Other units:

::855th Rifle Regiment, 278th Rifle Division

13th Army

Maj. Gen. {{ill|Avksenty Gorodnyansky|ru|Городнянский, Авксентий Михайлович}}

:6th Rifle Division

:121st Rifle Division

:132nd Rifle Division

:143rd Rifle Division

:155th Rifle Division

:298th Rifle Division

:307th Rifle Division

:55th Cavalry Division

:141st Tank Brigade

Operational Group Ermakov

Lt. Gen. Arkady Yermakov

:2nd Guards Rifle Division

:160th Rifle Division

:283rd Rifle Division

:21st Mountain Cavalry Division

:121st Tank Brigade

:150th Tank Brigade

:1st Guards mortar regiment M-13

:6th Guards mortar regiment M-8

Front Reserves

:7th Guards Rifle Division

:154th Rifle Division

:287th Rifle Division

:42nd Tank Brigade

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Soviet – deployed east:

{{flagicon|Soviet Union|1936}} none

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• Forczyk, Robert. Moscow 1941: Hitler's first defeat. Oxford, United Kingdom: Osprey Publishing, 2006. {{ISBN|184603017X}}.
• Mitcham, Samuel W. German Order of Battle, volume 1: 1st – 290th Infantry Division in WWII. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 2007. {{ISBN|0811734382}}.
• Mitcham, Samuel W. German Order of Battle, volume 2: 291st – 999th Infantry Divisions, Named Infantry Divisions, and Special Divisions in WWII. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 2007. {{ISBN|0811734374}}.
• Mitcham, Samuel W. German Order of Battle, volume 3: Panzer, Panzer Grenadier, and Waffen SS Divisions in WWII. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 2007. {{ISBN|978-0-8117-3438-7}}.
• Zetterling, Niklas & Frankson, Aners. "The Drive on Moscow, 1941." Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Casemate Books, 2012.

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20111208154550/http://www.cgsc.edu/CARL/nafziger/939RXAB.PDF]

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