The Berlin Operation, 1945 by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HISTORY / Military / World War II
Publisher: Helion & Company
Published: 2016-08-19T00:00:00+00:00

The Fighting on 22 April

The tasks of the armies of the front’s main shock group for 22 April remained as before.

In order to secure the right flank of the front’s main shock group, the front commander on 22 April ordered the 61st Army to continue attacking along its left wing, with the task of clearing the southern bank of the Finow and Hohenzollern canals of the enemy on 22 April along the sector Niederfinow—Bernoewe, and to temporarily go over to the defensive along this line.

The Polish 1st Army was to continue attacking in the general direction of Sandhausen and Kremmen, with the immediate task of occupying the line excluding Bernoewe—Sandhausen—Borgsdorf.

The front commander ordered the 69th Army, having changed the axis of its main blow from the west to the south, from the morning of 22 April to resume the offensive in the general direction of Fuerstenwalde and Bad Saarow.

The commander of the 3rd Shock Army was given the task of, having crossed over the Oder River along the Goritz—Lebus sector, continuing the march to the west and by 1200 on 22 April to concentrate in the area of Muncheberg. One of the army’s rifle divisions, along with a regiment of self-propelled artillery, was ordered to the Mucheberg area by forced march.

The commander of the 2nd Guards Tank Army, on the basis of the front commander’s instructions, made the decision to decisively break through to the west with his 9th Guards Tank Corps, force the Havel River in the Henningsdorf area and, covering from the north with part of its forces, to develop the blow for the purpose of outflanking Berlin from the northwest.

The right-flank armies of the front’s main shock group, continued throughout the day to carry out their maneuver to complete the envelopment of Berlin from the north.

Throughout the day the 47th Army, along with the 9th Guards Tank Corps, continued its successful attack to the west, enveloping Berlin from the north. The German command, while continuing to throw new reserves from Berlin into the battle, attempted to delay the army’s maneuver. Throughout the day the following units were committed into the battle in the army’s sector: a security regiment for the high command headquarters, the 148th Anti-Aircraft Searchlight Battalion, the 218th Anti-Aircraft Regiment, and the “Buchholz” Volkssturm Battalion.

The 9th Guards Tank Corps, attacking ahead of the infantry of the army’s right-flank formations and pulling the infantry behind itself, captured Bergfelde and Stolpe as a result of a night battle, and by 0800 had reached the eastern bank of the Havel River in the Henningsdorf area. Throughout the day the corps fought to seize bridgeheads on the river’s western bank. By 1900, having crushed the Germans’ resistance, the corps’ motorized infantry forced the Havel River on improvised means and seized a bridgehead east of Henningsdorf.

By 2000 the crossing of the Havel River had begun by recently-arrived rifle units from the 47th Army.

By the end of the day the 125th Rifle Corps, along with the 9th Guards Tank Corps, with two divisions in its first echelon, was fighting for Henningsdorf.

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