33rd Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
Avanzini and Crofoot write that the division was formed in June 1922 from a cadre from a rifle brigade at Samara in the Volga Military District as a territorial rifle division, and received the designation 'Samar'. Vasily Margelov served with the division's 99th Rifle Regiment as a machine gun platoon commander during 1931 and 1932. With 16th Rifle Corps of 11th Army on June 22, 1941. Fought vicinity Stalingrad and Berlin. During the Battle of Berlin, it helped capture the Reichstag. With 3rd Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front May 1945.
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33rd Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
Avanzini and Crofoot write that the division was formed in June 1922 from a cadre from a rifle brigade at Samara in the Volga Military District as a territorial rifle division, and received the designation 'Samar'. Vasily Margelov served with the division's 99th Rifle Regiment as a machine gun platoon commander during 1931 and 1932. With 16th Rifle Corps of 11th Army on June 22, 1941. Fought vicinity Stalingrad and Berlin. During the Battle of Berlin, it helped capture the Reichstag. With 3rd Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front May 1945.
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Avanzini and Crofoot write tha ...... st Belorussian Front May 1945.
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