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Son of Chapaev, who commanded an artillery regiment, disposes of the parts without the help of the enemy infantry. I went in February 1943. Our troops successfully advanced on Kharkov. As part of the attacking forces, and in 1850 it was the first anti-tank artillery regiment under the command polpolkovnika Chapaev.
Alexander Chapaev was the eldest son of the legendary division commander Civil War. He was born before the first world - in 1910, and when he was four years old, Chapaeva Sr. took to the front, and more Aleksandr's father is almost never seen.
Alexander, his sister Claudia and his brother Arkady raised under the watchful eye of Soviet power. The family of the deceased hero in no way needed. Both brothers chose a military career. Junior Arkady became a pilot in 1939 and crashed during a training flight. Alexander became a gunner, and the beginning of the war he taught in the Podolsk Artillery School.
Since the beginning of the war, when the school was formed 696 th Artillery Regiment, in which Captain Chapaev was appointed commander of the division antitank guns. Soon, some went to the front. In October-December, 1941, together with his division as part of 511 th howitzer artillery regiment, Chapaev fought on the outskirts of Moscow.
There he was first wounded to receive medical treatment but returned to the command of the division, and have 5 February 1942 engage him reflected the major German counterattack Rzhev. Skillfully using shrapnel, and at close range even buckshot, gunners mowed down two German battalion. It was then that Alexander Chapaev realized that his gunners can fight without the support of infantry.





A year later, when Chapayev was already a lieutenant colonel, he komanduemomu shelf once again had to enter into combat without the support of our enemy infantry.
In those days, a large force of Germans were surrounded near the village of Blue Lipyagi Nizhnedevitsky District in the Voronezh region. Using the fact that the west is holding them back a loose long offensive infantry units, a regiment of Germans forces broke out of the encirclement. On the way they did not have any infantry or armored units. The only force that can stop them, turned out to be the same 1850 minutes iptap.
Then again Chapayev useful shrapnel and buckshot. More than a thousand Germans were killed. The remaining 403 persons surrendered our gunners. As Chapayevites trophies went to 11 guns, 27 machine guns, 19 machine, 729 rifles and 51 horses.
However, this did not stop the artillery and, without waiting for the infantry, we took the village Pyatikhatki, defeating the enemy battalion being there, and then the first left broke into the enemy Kharkov.





Source: warfiles.ru