Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Lieutenant General Nikolai Oslikovsky's third Guards Cavalry Corps met with Lieutenant General Gill's Thirteenth US Army Corps on May 4, 1945 at Torgau, Location:On April 26, the commanders of the 69th Infantry Division of the First Army and the Soviet 58th Guards Division of the 5th Guards Army met at Torgau, at the river Elbe. By joining forces at Elbe, the American and Soviet troops have successfully cut the Germany army in two parts, northern and southern ones.
- Categories: Unrest, Conflicts & War
- Location: Germany
- Event date: 04.05.1945
- Date published: 08.12.2008
- Author: Arkadyi Shaikhet
- Source: Sputnik
- Credit: Sputnik
- Original: 042558, 6x9 film
- Media: JPEG, 3543x2319px, 1.3Mb