MILITARY ACTIVITIES IN NEUSTRELITZ AND THE AREA OF THE 12TH GDS TANK DIVISION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006300300007-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 4, 2008
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: February 23, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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REFEREIS
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apgrc~ximately 15 tracks, 2 field kitchens and about 10 baxcarloads of
persee~l, ease frees the dirdctien of lrelten and proceeded toward
Yeh#~efa~. 2
1. it 1700 en 2 J 1 10 x 122-mm field hswit$ers, 2 x 85-mm iT
guns acid app z~n~ka tram the llta arensisr Laaern~a (2225) 25X1
were entrained at the Aeus~trelits railroad station.
2. It 1600 en.29 January, a trail whick carried 12 Y-13 rocket laumchers,
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J trenohea were being dug with a ?xeawator in the Alt-LutterEn-
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pn 23_Lud 2,~ Jasraa~-, tanks fired at irregular intervals. ill approach
ro reds t? that ticaining area weztir blocked and guarded by sent-ties.
During the night of 2,= J~, a tank unit arrived in the psuwGlienicke
area from the direct#ion e-f ?inaberg snd conducted a firing practice
between 2300 aid 010?. Approximately 36 J8 and T-34 tanks participated in
this exerdise.
Between 0200 acid 0600 msi 26 ,J~r , addl.tibnal unite arrived and i.eomediate~jr
started the c?aetnc~ticn of fie~.d fortifications. Eight J3Q-122 guns, 4 :l~-100
gone., 8 heavy artillerjr pieces, 16 AT guns, $ heavy mortars, 8 rocket
lauriohsra, 12 guns of eon undetermined type, approxi.e~a~ely 1Ob two sad 25X1
three-as1? armored persoaruT darriirs, and apprezietiately 65 trucks were seen.
fielfl fortifisatis$s.
firing. 4t ale?ut 1400 B ~ unfletex~sisaed guar
1~heiasberg.
oss t~~Hammeleital~ area. it ah?ut d9
oa gt~-15 a~ ~-~ airt~rraf t a
The units assembled in the area between la.t+rd~~ti:`
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a taasiE firing praatic? was
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~C?~me~ The entraining probably involved unite of the 495 th (Y)
Arty Ragt of the 9th Gds Taatc Div from the Alte Grenadier gaserne. Ths
ehi ment is believed to have been esa of the two ahi nts which
went o L'neke weld
?mment. The train probably carried the bulk of the 89th Gds RL
Bn of the 12th Gde Tank Div. Thy battalion p~I? returned from firing
practices at Jueterbog ar~til}:e rseit~s ~' t e division terrsd
between 24 Jaa~ary and 2 !~e'bruary.
3. ~ Coa~nsx~t. I the
firing practce~nvo'~d unite of the 12th Gds Tank Div whioh thus continued
their training including night firiag~practioes in the eastern porn
of tea 'ittsteek trainii~ grp~de during the second half of Jaaaary.
It is uadetersiaed, whether the firm practices
n ? we nr e n earl? ptbrasr~r also involved eleneats of this
division or waits of the IZ Yt$ 8ifle Corps.
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