The Soviet Second Army (also called Second Red Banner Army) was a Soviet field army of World War II that served in the far east. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (Russian: (СССР) listen?; tr. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km (over 11 miles) into the air. ...
The Second Army was created in July1938 on the far eastern frontiers of the Soviet Union. In September1940, two months after its formation, the Second Army was transformed into the Second Independent Red Banner Army in the far east. In July1940, the Second Army was once again allocated to the far east, this time under the name of the Second Red Banner Army. Until the war's end in 1945, the Second Army covered some of the long far eastern borders of the Soviet Union. In August1945, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, and the Soviet Far East Front attacked into Japanese-occupied Manchuria led by Marshal of the Soviet UnionAleksandr Vasilevsky. The Second Army took part in the victorious offensive along with other armies, including the Soviet First Army. The Second Army's attack was aimed at eastern Manchukuo. July is the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... September is the ninth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with the length of 30 days. ... 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... July is the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Note: as an adjective (stressed on the second syllable instead of the first), august means honorable. ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Soviet Far East Front was a front (Soviet army group) of World War II that operated in the Far East, hence its name. ... Extent according to Definition 1 (dark red), Definition 3 (dark red + medium red) and Definition 4 (dark red + medium red + light red) Northeast China (Simplified Chinese: 东北; Traditional Chinese: 東北; pinyin: ; literally east-north) and Manchuria (Manchu: Manju, Simplified Chinese: 满洲; Traditional Chinese: 滿洲; pinyin: ) are names of a region... Marshal of the Soviet Union Semyon Timoshenko in dress uniform The rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union (Russian: Marshal Sovietskogo Soyuza, Маршал Совет́ского Союза) was in practice the highest military rank of the Soviet Union. ... Marshal of the Soviet Union Aleksandr Vasilevsky Aleksandr Mikhailovich Vasilevsky (also spelled Vasilievsky, Vasilyevsky, Vasilievskii etc, Russian: Александр Михайлович Василевский) (September 30, 1895 - December 5, 1977), Japan in 1945, and later Defence Minister. ... Manchukuo was a nominally independent puppet state set up by the Empire of Japan in Manchuria (Northeastern China) which existed from 1931 to 1945 under the leadership of Emperor Pu Yi, the last Emperor of China. ...
Army Group South, commanded by Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, was to attack from southern Poland and Romania, its flank armies converging on Kiev to trap the Sovietarmies in the western Ukraine in a great pocket west of the Dnieper (Dnepr) River.
Army Group Don was fighting for its own existence and that of Army Group A. Early on the morning of Jan. 14, 1943, the Russians moved up the Don for the third time, this time to strike the Hungarian SecondArmy.
Army Group E in Greece and Albania, after airlifting its troops from Crete and the other Greek islands, was forced to undertake a long and precarious march through the mountains of western Yugoslavia, which it did not complete until mid-November.
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