Battle of Debrecen order of battle explained

This order of battle lists the German, Hungarian, Romanian, and Soviet forces involved in the Battle of Debrecen in October 1944.

Order of Battle for 6th Army, October 1944

Army Group	Army	Corps	Division	Remarks
ROWSPAN=18 style="background:#ccc;" style="border-bottom:1px solid gray;"	South Gen Friessner	ROWSPAN=11	German 6th Army Gen Fretter-Pico	ROWSPAN=1	IV Panzer Corps LtGen Kleeman	24th Panzer Division
ROWSPAN=1	LXXII Army Corps LtGen Schmidt	76th Infantry Division
ROWSPAN=2	Hungarian VII Army Corps MajGen Vörös	Hungarian 8th Reserve Division
Hungarian 12th Reserve Division
ROWSPAN=7	III Panzer Corps LtGen Breith	1st Panzer Division
13th Panzer Division
23rd Panzer Division
Feldherrnhalle Panzergrenadier Division
22nd SS Cavalry Division Maria Theresa
46th Infantry Division
503rd Heavy Tank Battalion
ROWSPAN=7	Hungarian Second Army LtGen von Dalnoki (Attached to German Sixth Army)	ROWSPAN=3	Hungarian II Army Corps MajGen Kiss	Hungarian 2nd Armored Division
Hungarian 25th Infantry Division
German 15th Infantry Division
ROWSPAN=3	Hungarian Group Finta BrigGen Finta	Hungarian 7th Replacement Division
Hungarian 1st Replacement Mountain Brigade
Hungarian 2nd Replacement Mountain Brigade
ROWSPAN=1	Army Reserve LtGen von Dalnoki	Hungarian 9th Replacement Division

Order of Battle for Second Ukrainian Front, October 1944

2nd Ukrainian Front (Marshal Rodion Malinovsky)

7th Guards Army^[1] (Lieutenant General Mikhail Shumilov)
- 24th Guards Rifle Corps
- 25th Guards Rifle Corps
- Army Reserves
  - 227th Rifle Division
27th Army (Lieutenant General Sergei Trofimenko)
- 35th Guards Rifle Corps
- 33rd Rifle Corps
  - 78th Rifle Division
  - 337th Rifle Division
- 104th Rifle Corps
  - 4th Guards Airborne Division
  - 163rd Rifle Division
  - 206th Rifle Division
- Army Reserve
  - 11th Artillery Division
  - 27th Guards Tank Brigade
  - Romanian 2nd Mountain Division
  - Romanian 3rd Mountain Division
  - Romanian 18th Infantry Division
  - Romanian Tudor Vladimirescu Infantry Division
40th Army (Lieutenant General Filipp Zhmachenko)

46th Army (Lieutenant General Ivan Shlemin)
- 10th Guards Rifle Corps
- 31st Guards Rifle Corps
- 37th Rifle Corps
  - 108th Guards Rifle Division
  - 320th Rifle Division
- Army Reserve
  - 7th Breakthrough Artillery Division
53rd Army (Lieutenant General Ivan Managarov)
- - - - 27th Guards Rifle Corps 297th Rifle Division
  - 409th Rifle Division
- 49th Rifle Corps
- 57th Rifle Corps (Major General Fyodor Ostashenko)
  - - - 203rd Rifle Division 228th Rifle Division (Colonel Ivan Yesin)
  - 243rd Rifle Division
- Army Reserve
  - 18th Tank Corps
  - 5th Guards Breakthrough Artillery Division

6th Guards Tank Army (Major General Andrei Grigoryevich Kravchenko)
- 9th Guards Mechanized Corps
- 5th Guards Tank Corps
- 6th Self-Propelled Artillery Brigade
- Romanian Cavalry Corps
  - 1st Cavalry Training Division
  - 1st Infantry Training Division
Cavalry – Mechanized Group Pliyev (Major General Issa Pliyev)
- 4th Guards Cavalry Corps
  - 9th Guards Cavalry Division
  - 10th Guards Cavalry Division
  - 30th Cavalry Division
- 6th Guards Cavalry Corps
  - 8th Guards Cavalry Division
  - 13th Guards Cavalry Division
  - 8th Cavalry Division
- 7th Mechanized Corps
Cavalry – Mechanized Group Gorshkov (Major General Sergey Gorshkov)
- 5th Guards Cavalry Corps
  - 11th Guards Cavalry Division
  - 12th Guards Cavalry Division
  - 63rd Cavalry Division
- 23rd Tank Corps

Romanian First Army (General Nicolae Macici)
- IV Corps
  - 2nd Infantry Division
  - 4th Infantry Division
- VII Corps
  - 9th Cavalry Division
  - 19th Infantry Division
Romanian Fourth Army (General Gheorghe Avramescu)
- Mountain Corps
  - 1st Mountain Division
  - 3rd Infantry Division
  - 6th Infantry Division
- II Corps
  - 8th Cavalry Division
- 20th Infantry Division
- VI Corps
  - 7th Infantry Division
  - 9th Infantry Division
  - 21st Infantry Division
- Army Reserve
  - 1st Cavalry Division
- 11th Infantry Division
- Armored Group (Remnants of 1st Armored Division)
Front Reserve

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Notes and References

[Combat composition of the Soviet Army]