MILITARY ACTIVITY IN THE AREA OF THE SECOND GUARDS MECHANIZED ARMY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006300320010-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 10, 2008
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: April 28, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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approximately 15 x 152-mm field howit$ers
12 x 76-gg field guns
approximately 120 trucks
7 field kitchens
and soldiers weuing red bordered black epaulets, including some
with artillery insignia
ammunition. fuel and equipgent and truck
During the entraining operation whioh was not yet completed at 1730,
the railroad station wag unusually hearily guarded by sentries.
A reu detail of approximately 120 soldiers remained in the quarter
of the brigade.
5. All elements of the artillery brigade which had been ent:cainsd on 2
February returned to Olympisohes Dorf during the night o:P
6 Febrc~ars. 2
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trucks and 2 field kitchens. 3
three trains
went from Alt?ngrabow to
3 rocket launchers, 24
7. Eight new tanks with turtle-like turrets and three new tanks with
onion-shaped turrets were perked in a shed of the Gentzrode
training grounds north of Aeurappin from 17 to 28 Jaguars. F~2
to 4 February, these tanks came from the Fridericus Kaaerne (2205)
in l~euruppin to the training grounds for driving practices. Doting
the period of the training, the roads were blocked by sentries. One
of the tanks seen from a distance of 15 meters had the following
shape and equipments
9/30 Ja~auary. three trains
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very flat, inclined turret, flattened on top; a gun in the tower
third of the center of the turret, caliber about 100 to 120 sei
without mussle brake; spikes. were fined to the slanting nose plate.
Five soldiers with helmets, probably the arew, stood near the
tanks. 4
Comment.. The report indicate
Div conducted large-scale exercises
grounds from about 27 to 30 Jannarl
night firing practi eerci e
pre~riously reported
It is believed that the practices also invo ve un s o ?
Light arty Brig and, according to the 122 mm field guns, possibly
also units of the 34th Js'ty Mx. Similsr aaneuvers at diwision or
corps level were frequently observed in the Soviet Zone of G1?ermagy
in th? second half of January.
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