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First Battle of Târgu Frumos order of battle

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This is the order of battle for the First Battle of Târgu Frumos (early April 1944), a World War II Soviet offensive against Axis powers in Târgu Frumos, Romania.

Soviet

2nd Tank Army, Lieutenant-General Semen Bogdanov
27th Army, Lieutenant-General Sergei Trofimenko
- 35th Guards Rifle Corps, Lieutenant-General Sergey Goryachev
40th Army, Lieutenant-General Filipp Zhmachenko
- 51st Rifle Corps, Major-General P.P. Avdeenko
  - 42nd Guards Rifle Division

Axis

German

8th Army, General der Infanterie Otto Wöhler
- Grossdeutschland Panzer Grenadier Division, General der Panzertruppe Hasso von Manteuffel
  - Panzer Regiment
  - Panzer Grenadier Regiment
  - Panzer Fusilier Regiment

Romanian

4th Army, Lieutenant-General Ioan Mihail Racoviță
- 1st Army Corps
  - 6th Infantry Division
- 4th Army Corps
  - 1st Guards Division
  - 7th Infantry Division

References

Glantz, David M. (2007). Red Storm Over the Balkans: The Failed Soviet Invasion of Romania. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-1465-3.