independent signal battalion (Roßlau? However by the beginning of April this was reduced to one light-bombing regiment (twelve Po-2) and three fighter regiments with twelve Polikarpov I-16s in total. was a German armoured formation during World War II, formed from the 3rd … In 1991, the army disbanded with the fall of the Soviet Union. Historica Wiki is a FANDOM Games Community. The 3rd Shock Army captured Riga in Latvia in 1944 before assisting in the push into East Prussia, and the 3rd Shock Army joined with the 1st Belorussian Front in the Vistula-Oder Offensive of 1945. 3rd Shock forced a passage over a tributary of the Dvina River, the Oger, on 19 August, but then had to fend off a strong German attack mounted by three divisions with air support. Kicking off on 10 July, 3 Shock Army had reached the Velikaya River by 12 July, captured the bridges despite the demolition charges laid on them, and gone on to outflank Idritsa. However after a few days the offensive – the Toropets-Kholm operation – began to roll forward, with 3rd Shock approaching Kholm, but it was getting dangerously separated from its neighbour, 4th Shock Army. Riga fell on 13 October and the remaining German forces in the area were bottled up in the Courland area.[7]. individual company of chemical protection (Neuruppin), 1074 independent battalion of materiel supply (Wulkow), 64 independent is repair-restoration battalion (Neuruppin), 208 independent medical-sanitary battalion (Neuruppin? Bukshtynovich (August 1944 – to the end of the war). maint. ), 183 independent battalion of materiel supply (Roßlau), 58 independent is repair-restoration battalion (Roßlau), 89 independent medical-sanitary battalion (Dessau), 61 Guards tank Sverdlovsk regiment (Altengrabow), 62 Guards tank Permian-Keletskiy regiment (Altengrabow), 63 Guards tank Chelyabinsk-Petrokovskiy regiment (Altengrabow), 248 Guards motor-rifle Unechskiy regiment (Schönebeck), 112 independent reconnaissance battalion (Khalershtadt) later Altengrabow, 152 independent signal battalion (Altengrabow), 131 independent engineer battalion (Magdeburg), 127 independent battalion of chemical protection (Altengrabow), 1072 independent battalion of materiel supply (Altengrabow), 60 independent is repair-restoration battalion (Altengrabow), 188 independent medical-sanitary battalion (Altengrabow), 12 Guards Tank Uman Division (Neuruppin) (disbanded 1991), 48 Guards tank Vapnyarsko-Varshavsky regiment (Neuruppin), 332 Guards tank Warsaw red banner of order A. Nevsky regiment (Neuruppin), 353 Guards tank Vapnyarsko-Berlin regiment (Neuruppin), 200 Guards motor-rifle Fastov regiment (Burg), 117 self-propelled artillery regiment (Mahlwinkel), 933 antiaircraft-missile Upper Dnieper regiment (Burg), 18 independent Guards reconnaissance Demblin battalion (Mahlwinkel), 490 independent signal battalion (Neuruppin), 136 independent Guards Demblin engineer battalion (Neuruppin), (?) 3rd Shock Army troops in the battle of Berlin, 1945. The 3rd Shock Army (Russian: Третья ударная армия) was a field army of the Red Army formed during the Second World War. Ponomarenko (February – March 1943), General Major A.I. A week later, two regiments of the 150th Rifle Division, 79th Rifle Corps were responsible for erecting flags over the Reichstag on 30 April 1945, one of which was known as the "Victory Flag". (1 June – 31 December 1944), Campaign in Europe during 1945 (Russian: Кампания в Европе 1945 г.) The First, Third and Fourth Shock Armies were deployed near Moscow, where they threw back the German forces threatening the city.