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Cobra King (tank)

The 2nd Red Banner Army was a Soviet field army of World War II that was formed


at Khabarovsk in the Soviet Far East in July 1938. It spent most of the war guarding the border in
the Blagoveshchensk area, sending formations to the Eastern Front while undergoing several
reorganizations. At the time of its creation, the unit was part of the army group known as the Far
Eastern Front. The unit was designated as the 2nd Army and was led by corps commander Ivan
Konev (pictured). It became the 2nd Independent Red Banner Army in September 1938 when the
front was dissolved and its troops were split into two independent armies, and was redesignated in
June 1940 as the 2nd Red Banner Army. In August 1945, the army fought in the Soviet invasion of
Manchuria, capturing the Japanese fortified regions of Aihun and Sunwu adjacent to its sector of the
border, and advancing into Manchuria to Qiqihar

Source: wikipedia

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