124th Rifle Division
Began writing Battle of Vyborg Bay
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| battles = [[Operation Barbarossa]] [[Battle of Brody (1941)]] [[Battle of Kiev (1941)]] [[Second Battle of Kharkov]] [[Case Blue]] [[Battle of Stalingrad]] [[Siege of Leningrad]] [[Mga offensive]] [[Leningrad–Novgorod offensive]] [[Battle of Narva (1944)]] [[ [[East Prussian offensive]] [[Battle of Königsberg]] [[Samland offensive]] [[Soviet invasion of Manchuria]] [[Khingan–Mukden Operation]] |
| battles = [[Operation Barbarossa]] [[Battle of Brody (1941)]] [[Battle of Kiev (1941)]] [[Second Battle of Kharkov]] [[Case Blue]] [[Battle of Stalingrad]] [[Siege of Leningrad]] [[Mga offensive]] [[Leningrad–Novgorod offensive]] [[Battle of Narva (1944)]] [[Battle of Vyborg Bay (1944)]] [[East Prussian offensive]] [[Battle of Königsberg]] [[Samland offensive]] [[Soviet invasion of Manchuria]] [[Khingan–Mukden Operation]] |
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| battle_honours = [[Mga]] [[Greater Khingan|Khingan]] (both 3rd Formation) |
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== Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive == |
== Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive == |
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On June 30 the 124th was transferred, with its Corps, to 59th Army, still in Leningrad Front.Sharp, ''"Red Swarm"'', p. 46 At this time the ''STAVKA'' was determined to settle affairs with Finland, and while the main offensive on the [[Karelian Isthmus]] would be launched by 21st and [[23rd Army (Soviet Union)|23rd Armies]], the 59th, with |
On June 30 the 124th was transferred, with its Corps, to 59th Army, still in Leningrad Front.Sharp, ''"Red Swarm"'', p. 46 At this time the ''STAVKA'' was determined to settle affairs with Finland, and while the main offensive on the [[Karelian Isthmus]] would be launched by 21st and [[23rd Army (Soviet Union)|23rd Armies]], the 59th, with three divisions, would conduct amphibious operations along the Finnish coast. |
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===Battle of Vyborg Bay=== |
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The offensive had begun on June 10 and ten days later the combined 21st and 23rd Armies occupied the city of [[Vyborg]] (Viipuri). The [[Baltic Fleet]] had been assigned to support the former in its advance on the west side of the Karelian Isthmus. Part of this support consisted of conducting genuine and feint amphibious assaults to tie down Finnish forces, using elements of 43rd Corps. Following the occupation of Vyborg the two Armies expected to smash through the Finnish defenses to the north and northeast and advance to the prewar Soviet-Finnish border and the seaborne attack was intended to assist this by capturing the islands in Vyborg Bay before landing on the Finnish mainland on the Bay's north shore to outflank the Finnish lines.Glantz, ''The Battle for Leningrad 1941 - 1944'', pp. 422, 427, 445, 454 |
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== Postwar == |
== Postwar == |
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