Nevertheless, they did reach their objective and forced the enemy to retreat and take Vesely.ġ5th cav.
Regiment failed to install their artillery quickly enough to support the 13th cav. were moving too slowly and were stopped, so 13th Cav. was performing recon missions, to find targets for the artillery to suppress. Simultaneously, the 15th cavalry division should begin their attack on Kushevskaya on foot.įrom 06:00 till 10:00 13th Cav. (.)Infantry, mortars, artillery and tanks should provide as much fire support as they can to suppress the enemy, while the cavalry with tanks moves to the village Vesely. together with TBr (Tank Brigade) had to move to the left flank of the 25th cav. In Kuschevsky there was an enemy 4th Mountain infantry division, reinforced with cavalry, artillery and tanks. Before that, at 04:00 a company of enemy SMG-men (infantry) took Veseliy village. Further I translated most important parts of that report:Īt 01:00 an order was received to be ready to attack Kuschevsky at sunrise in cooperation with 2 regiments of 13th cavalry division and a separate tank brigade (also called Maikop tank brigade sometimes) and 1 regiment of 12th cavalry division. There are no reports from the 13th cavalry division, luckily however all is described quite well in reports of the 15th cavalry division. The book also claims that the 4th Cossack Cavalry Corps was raised to the status of a Guards corps shortly afterward, which may help in dating it.ĭid this battle actually happen as described? If so, were there any unmentioned factors that explain the outcome? The date of the battle is not given, but in context occurred in late 1941 or later. I'm curious because as far as I'm aware men on horseback charging against tanks and winning is unprecedented, but the book doesn't give any more details on the battle and I haven't been able to find any other references to the battle specifically or Cossack cavalry fighting tanks in general in English. I've learned a lot about the battle from that link and some others, but I haven't found anything in English and I don't entirely trust google translate or else I would have written up an answer to it myself by now. The book is "The Unwomanly Face of War", which is actually used as a reference in that Russian Wikipedia seven-phases-max referenced above.
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