2nd Red Banner Army
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|country=[[Soviet Union]]
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|branch=[[Red Army]], [[Soviet Army]]
|dates=July 1938 - 1945(?)
|command_structure= [[Soviet Far East Front]]
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|battles=[[Operation August Storm]]
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The '''2nd Red Banner Army''' was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] field army of [[World War II]] that served in the Far East as part of the [[Soviet Far East Front]].
The 2nd Army was created in July [[1938]] on the far eastern frontiers of the [[Soviet Union]]. In September [[1940]], two months after its formation, the 2nd Army was transformed into the Second Independent Red Banner Army in the far east. In early 1940 (April?) General [[M.F. Teryokhin]] took command, who would command the Army throughout the war. In July [[1940]], the 2nd Army was once again allocated to the Far East, this time under the name of the 2nd Red Banner Army. Until the war's end in [[1945]], the 2nd Army covered some of the long far eastern borders of the [[Soviet Union]].
In August [[1945]], the [[Soviet Union]] declared war on [[Japan]], and the [[Soviet Far East Front]] attacked into [[Japan|Japanese]]-occupied [[Manchuria]] led by [[Marshal of the Soviet Union]] [[Aleksandr Vasilevsky]]. The 2nd Red Banner Army took part in the victorious offensive, known as [[Operation August Storm]] along with other armies, including the [[1st Red Banner Army]]. The 2nd Army's attack was aimed at eastern [[Manchukuo]].
===Composition July 22, 1941===
*Headquarters
*[[3rd Rifle Division (Soviet Union)|3rd Rifle Division]]
*12th Rifle Division
*59th [[Tank Division]]
*69th [[Mechanized Division]]
*101st [[Fortified Region]]
*42nd Corps Artillery Regiment
*114th Howitzer Regiment
*550th Heavy Howitzer Regiment
*2nd Bridge Engineer Regiment
*36th Heavy Bridge Engineer Regiment
*2nd Armoured Train Battalion
*5th Armoured Train Battalion
===Sources===
*Niehorster, http://orbat.com/site/ww2/drleo/012_ussr/41_oob/far-east/army_02.html
*[[David Glantz]], Stumbling Colossus, University Press of Kansas, 1998
*http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/2._Rote_Armee - German Wikipedia
{{Armies of the Soviet Army}}
[[Category:Field armies of the Soviet Union|002]]
[[Category:Military units and formations established in 1938]]
[[de:2. Rote Armee]]