FIELD EXERCISES NORTH OF NEURUPPIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R014300340003-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 24, 2006
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: September 17, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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On 18 Auuumt 1952) a field exercise was hold 1 k .m southwest of Linr.T> C ill 4/ 25X1
U 1s1.), in the train' area north of Nearu pin (? 53/Z tag;
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t,owi.nt 57-w, AT ::runs A parkin lot With 25X1
about tanks and. 3 tanks and truck; Iva; 25X1
situated 1 lam, smith of ' r'eive T-34/85 tanks 5X1
and about 30 JS-3 tanks
5 model 1&1.13 rocket launchers and 3 3143e---
car motorcycle: with na.chir o guns were o -,.-l a parking lot l,> ien west of DoDAD-0- 25X1
nuehle. A- unit practiced titi?it, nur.orous l2O-rni mortars each rnan.ned. by, I or 1 .: ::l,.
on Hill ;'o 8b on the northern tip of. Tornovt Lake. On 19 August, are eng.nrier 25X1
unit launched. an att ck. across Torrlot;, Lake with five assault boatsrt each rryth
each:tree; Guar and 16 soldiers. 'Kighteen T-31,t/85 tanks 25X1
trucks F
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x l2 2-'m held howitzers coupled to trucks and 30 x 120-mm
rho:' car f,
also coupled to trucks, were in a parking lot north of Stendenitz? A. motcrrboa
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was pullirxg four poll-too.-,is in the southern section of Zerr;~uetzel :Lake- Landing
stag
es, 30 meters long, were built of military bridge building equipment, !"leld
howitzers of 122 mm attached to truck and a jeep were ferried across the laksr, 25X1
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fief awitzers were on the eastern bank ready to be ferried across the ?_aks, 25X1
Abou a34/85 tanks and. 2S JS tanks were on a parking lot north of the road :r~rom
lk err to Molchow. - Twelve J,,---3 tanks F_ I
were lined up at the ferry near Nordschleuse t.em-mahlo. Ten T-34,1'65 tanks
practiced airing at a pros: Lice target representing a tank on the ;~e.rmuehle troop
training grounds.
Cement tank, artillery, and engirieor
units of the 12th Gds Tank Div had been oz r.;a ;cad in practices in the area north
of I ou ruppin on 1 and 12 /`August. ~ The exercises in the
present report appear to have oxtenoecu as far as the theirasberg. area. It is
39 JSU--122 SP ins 1.0 JS. -2 t miks
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belioved that Vic) fi,;uros -vxvi cons and cnl'i%er are too IM Ch. This was also rt-y'3ortec coriLlen_t oz Uic _rci:o-recce
1 .~i .i. "i 'F ~~. r..t 1~ ' o',cZ-f'~s~?~- :a the
ropoxt r,rlic:h car..v4i )_.lec'.
ponotration of the ,coded area
Jt:c:a?25L' of C. `'t Clouds. ,,TAcr '::ero ;;reziio s ; mcnZ iorec ,im.
;pro .7 the rcaoons
riotor vehicle
n -- ain, the practice; .%for?e rze _c.
nod s of t e 12th 3d:-3 MALI`. iiJ,.-v. ?i eref l "e , iii is p:r rbai 1e txt
cor.:pore;nts of this division can,^,,A,-ed in .f:i.el o ex?ci.~er in ? :ae arca
between 'A'eurup in and
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