5th Guards Tank Army

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Guards formation Soviet tank army

The 5th Guards Tank Army was an elite Soviet armoured formation of World War II, renowned for its major role in large-scale offensives on the Eastern Front, including the Battle of Kursk and subsequent operations into Eastern Europe.

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Label	Occurrences
5th Guards Tank Army canonical	2
5th Tank Army	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Guards formation ⓘ Soviet tank army ⓘ
advancedInto	Belarus ⓘ East Prussia ⓘ Germany ⓘ Poland ⓘ
allegiance	Stavka ⓘ
branch	Armoured troops ⓘ
commander	Aleksei Rodin ⓘ Pavel Rotmistrov NERFINISHED ⓘ Vasily Volsky ⓘ
conflict	World War II ⓘ surface form: Second World War
country	Soviet Union ⓘ
decoratedWith	Guards title ⓘ
disbandedIn	post-World War II period ⓘ
era	World War II ⓘ
formationDate	1942 ⓘ
frontAssignment	1st Belorussian Front ⓘ 2nd Belorussian Front ⓘ 3rd Belorussian Front ⓘ Soviet Steppe Front ⓘ surface form: Steppe Front Soviet Voronezh Front ⓘ surface form: Voronezh Front
gainedGuardsStatus	1943 ⓘ
honorific	Guards ⓘ
notableAction	counter-attack at Prokhorovka during Battle of Kursk ⓘ
notableEngagement	Battle of Kursk ⓘ Battle of Kursk ⓘ surface form: Battle of Prokhorovka Belorussian strategic offensive operation ⓘ surface form: Belorussian Offensive Soviet Berlin Offensive Operation ⓘ surface form: Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation East Prussian Offensive ⓘ Operation Bagration ⓘ Vistula–Oder Offensive ⓘ
notableFor	deep operations ⓘ large-scale armoured offensives ⓘ
operationalDoctrine	Soviet deep battle ⓘ
partOf	Red Army ⓘ
precededBy	5th Guards Tank Army self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: 5th Tank Army
primaryOpponent	Waffen-SS ⓘ surface form: Waffen-SS armoured formations Wehrmacht ⓘ
role	breakthrough exploitation formation ⓘ operational-level armoured reserve ⓘ
status	disbanded ⓘ
subordinateUnit	mechanized corps ⓘ motorized rifle units ⓘ self-propelled artillery units ⓘ tank corps ⓘ
theatre	Eastern Front ⓘ
typicalStrength	several hundred tanks ⓘ

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

Soviet Steppe Front → component → 5th Guards Tank Army ⓘ

Soviet Western Front (Red Army formation) → subordinateUnit → 5th Guards Tank Army ⓘ

subject surface form: Soviet Western Front

5th Guards Tank Army → precededBy → 5th Guards Tank Army self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: 5th Tank Army