2nd Mechanized Corps (Major General Ivan Korchagin) 18th Mechanized Brigade 34th Mechanized Brigade 43rd Mechanized Brigade 33rd Tank Brigade 36th Tank Brigade 68th Separate Motorcycle Battalion 184th Tank Brigade 27th Separate Tank Regiment 34th Separate Tank Regiment (Lieutenant Colonel Bogdanov) equipped with T-34 tanks 37th Separate Tank Regiment 38th Separate Tank Regiment (Lieutenant Colonel Zheleznov, after 30.12.42 Lieutenant Colonel Khubayev) equipped with T-34 tanks 45th Separate Tank Regiment 146th, 170th Separate Tank Battalions 225th, 289th, 293rd Separate Engineer Brigades 94th Motor-Pontoon Battalion 3rd Air Army Long Range Aviation 3rd Long-range aviation division (Colonel Yukhanov) 17th Long-range aviation division (General Major of Aviation Loginov) 222nd Long-range aviation division (Colonel Titov) German Army Group Center Group "Chevallerie" from (LIX Corps) Wehrmacht's Velikiye Luki garrison Gruppe "Wöhler" 83rd Infantry Division (Lieutenant-General Theodor Scherer) Operation "Totila" relief forces II/11th Panzer Division Two battalions/331st Infantry Division 8th Panzer Division (14 PzKW 38t, and one command tank) 20th Motorized Infantry Division 6th Luftwaffe Field Division 3rd Mountain Division (at Novosokol'niki to the rear of 83rd Infantry Division's positions) 291st Infantry Division 1 SS Infantry Brigade (mot) Frikorps Danmark Most of Army Group Center was engaged in resisting the second Soviet Rzhev-Sychevka offensive throughout this period. Almost half of the 83rd Infantry Division was assigned to the Velikiye Luki garrison. The 3rd Mountain Division was at little more than half strength, since its 139th Regiment had been left in Lapland when the division withdrew from northern Finland. The 138th Mountain Regiment was the unknown unit of 3rd Mountain shown in Maps 2 and 3. 20th Motorized was from Army Group Center's reserve. See also Eastern Front (World War II) Notes References Chadwick, Frank A. et al. (1979). White Death: Velikiye Luki, The Stalingrad of the North. Normal, Il:, game design notes, GDW (Game Designers Workshop) a board wargame that covers the battle with considerable detail. It includes notes on the battle, orders of battle for each side, and a 1:100,000 map derived from Soviet wartime situation maps. Shelby Stanton had researched primary sources using the captured German records held by NARA in Wash. DC. Department of the Army, Historical Study Operations of Encircled Forces German Experiences in Russia, Pamphlet 20-234, Washington DC, 1952. This pamphlet was written by German officers to relay their experiences fighting the Russians (sic). The officers had to rely on memory so there are some inaccuracies but gives a good overall account of