Battle at Borodino Field

Battle at Borodino Field

Infobox Military Conflict
conflict=Battle at Borodino Field


caption=
partof=the Battle of Moscow
place=Borodino, Russian SSR
date=13 October 1941-18 January, 1942
result=German victory
combatant1=flag|Nazi Germany|name=Germany
combatant2=flag|Soviet Union|1923
commander1=Günther von Kluge
commander2=Dmitry Lelyushenko
strength1=2nd SS Division Das Reich
10th Panzer Division
18th Panzer Brigade
19th Panzer Brigade
strength2=32nd Rifle Division
82nd Rifle Division
36th Motorcycle Regiment
509th Anti-Tank Regiment
casualties1=
casualties2=|The Battle at Borodino Field was an encounter in the Battle of Moscow, on the Eastern Front of World War II. While referring to the battle in Russian, the Borodino Field is actually more commonly applied rather than just Borodino, cf. Georgi Zhukov ("...this division [32nd] was forced to cross the arms with the enemy on the Borodino Field...").ru icon cite web|url=http://www.borodino.ru/41_45.shtml|title=Бородино в годы Великой Отечественной Войны. 1941-42 гг.|publisher=Borodino.ru |accessdate=2008-05-01]

On October 13, 1941, at noon German Junkers and Messerschmitt aircraft appeared over the Borodino Field, [cite book | last =Lelyushenko | first =D. | authorlink = | coauthors = | title =Moscow-Stalingrad-Berlin-Prague | publisher =Nauka | date =1987 | location = Moscow| pages =p. 62 | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = ] the site of the French-Russian clash. On October 16 severe fights have broke out in the center of Borodino Field, subsequently the Germans managed to take the field. The Spaso-Borodinsky Monastery was burnt and the Borodino Museum suffered damage. Borodino Field was freed by the 82nd Soviet Rifle Division during the counter-offensive.

Subsequently a monument was erected in the field with the inscription on bas-relief: "Here, on the lines of the sacred Borodino Field in October, 1941 the heroic units of the 5th Army have been fighting to the bitter end, rebutting the furious onslaught of German fascist usurpers".

Notes

ource

*"За нами Москва. Бородино. 1941. Воспоминания". М., 2007 (memoirs and letter extracts of Soviet 5th Army soldiers)

External links

* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,795402,00.html Hitler's Borodino (Time.com)]


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