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The 142nd Rifle Division began service in August, 1939 as a standard Red Army rifle division, which participated in the Winter War against Finland. It remained on the Karelian Isthmus and had a relatively uneventful war facing the Finns until the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive began on June 10, 1944, from which point it saw much more active service. Following the Finnish surrender the division was transferred to 2nd Shock Army in 2nd Belorussian Front. Its soldiers distinguished themselves in the capture of the German city of Graudenz and ended the war fighting through Pomerania. == Formation == The division began forming in August, 1939, north of Leningrad, where it would spend most of the war. On Nov. 30 the Winter War with Finland began, and the division performed creditably enough that it was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.〔Charles C. Sharp, ''"Red Legions", Soviet Rifle Divisions Formed Before June 1941, Soviet Order of Battle World War II, Vol. VIII'', 1996, p 71〕 On June 22, 1941, the division was in 19th Rifle Corps of 23rd Army near the Finnish border in Leningrad Military District. Its order of battle was as follows: * 461st Rifle Regiment * 588th Rifle Regiment * 701st Rifle Regiment * 334th Light Artillery Regiment * 234th Antitank Battalion * 227th Sapper Battalion * 196th Signal Battalion * 172nd Reconnaissance Company〔Sharp, p 71, and Russian Wikipedia〕 P.S. Pshennikov, who had commanded the division in the Winter War, had been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General and was now in command of 23rd Army.〔David M. Glantz, ''The Battle for Leningrad, 1941-1944'', University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 2002, p 20〕 On July 31 the Finnish Army began its offensive against 23rd Army and over the following month pushed south down the Karelian Isthmus as the Russian forces conducted a fighting retreat. On Aug. 31 the front had reached general line of the 1939 Finnish-Soviet border, and the Finns halted. The 142nd would remain along this line, fighting a static war, until June, 1944. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「142nd Rifle Division (Soviet Union)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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