2nd Guards Tank Corps

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Guards unit Soviet tank corps

The 2nd Guards Tank Corps was an elite Soviet armored formation that played a significant role in major Eastern Front operations during World War II.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
2nd Guards Tank Corps canonical	2
23rd Tank Corps	1
2nd Guards Tank Corps (historical predecessor)	1

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Guards unit ⓘ Soviet tank corps ⓘ
awardedFor	distinction in combat ⓘ
conflict	Eastern Front ⓘ surface form: Eastern Front (World War II) World War II ⓘ surface form: Second World War
country	Soviet Union ⓘ
era	World War II ⓘ
garrisonDuringWar	various fronts of the Red Army ⓘ
hasHonorificTitle	Guards ⓘ
militaryBranch	Armored troops of the Red Army ⓘ
militaryDoctrine	Deep operations doctrine of the Red Army ⓘ
militaryUnitSize	corps ⓘ
notableCommander	Aleksei Rodin ⓘ Semyon Bogdanov ⓘ
notableEquipment	KV-1 heavy tank ⓘ SU-100 self-propelled gun ⓘ SU-76 self-propelled gun ⓘ SU-85 self-propelled gun ⓘ T-34 medium tank ⓘ
notableFor	participation in major Soviet offensives ⓘ rapid armored advances ⓘ
notableOperationType	breakthrough of defensive lines ⓘ encirclement operations ⓘ pursuit operations ⓘ
opponent	Waffen-SS ⓘ Wehrmacht ⓘ
partOf	Red Army ⓘ
precededBy	2nd Guards Tank Corps self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: 23rd Tank Corps
receivedTitleFor	actions at Stalingrad ⓘ
role	armored breakthrough formation ⓘ exploitation of operational success ⓘ
subunit	Red Army units ⓘ surface form: Artillery units of the Red Army Engineer units of the Red Army ⓘ Motorized rifle brigades of the Red Army ⓘ Red Army units ⓘ surface form: Reconnaissance units of the Red Army Tank brigades of the Red Army ⓘ
theaterOfOperations	Eastern Front ⓘ
timePeriod	1942–1945 ⓘ
tookPartIn	Battle of Berlin ⓘ Battle of Kursk ⓘ Battle of Stalingrad ⓘ Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive ⓘ Operation Bagration ⓘ Operation Little Saturn ⓘ Operation Uranus ⓘ Vistula–Oder Offensive ⓘ

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

3rd Belorussian Front → notableArmy → 2nd Guards Tank Corps ⓘ

Soviet Western Front (Red Army formation) → subordinateUnit → 2nd Guards Tank Corps ⓘ

subject surface form: Soviet Western Front

2nd Guards Tank Corps → precededBy → 2nd Guards Tank Corps self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: 23rd Tank Corps

Soviet 2nd Guards Tank Army → successorUnit → 2nd Guards Tank Corps ⓘ

subject surface form: 2nd Guards Tank Army

this entity surface form: 2nd Guards Tank Corps (historical predecessor)