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Flames of War—Soviet: Engineer-Sapper Battalion
The assault Engineer-Sapper battalions were formed to capture or destroy enemy strongpoints and fortifications. They were equipped with a large variety of explosives, grenades and satchel charges. Wearing the prototype SN-42 body armour, the sappers could close with the enemy protected from shrapnel and small arms fire. Engineering Assault Brigades The complexity and breadth of Operation Bagration greatly increased the demand for Soviet engineers. The need to break through increasingly sophisticated enemy defences and assault across rivers, swamps, mountains and vast forests presented an enormous challenge. Developing an engineering capability to support the massive offensive of Operation Bagration was a daunting task to say the least. Stavka (Soviet Supreme Headquarters) required immense engineering support. The mission to provide the proper mix of trained engineering personnel capable of building roads and bridges, clearing minefields and obstacles, providing demolition experts, assaulting enemy defences and assisting river crossings to secure critical bridgeheads rested with the engineering assault brigades. These brigades contained four or five separate engineering-sapper battalions, a flame-thrower company, a motorised engineering and intelligence company, and a light transport company. The battalions specialized in bridging, demolition, or assault depending upon the situation faced by the particular Soviet Front the brigade was supporting. The assault Engineer-Sapper battalions were designed to use explosives, grenades, pole and bag charges to take or destroy buildings, trenches, bunkers, and fortifications. These would include previously identified enemy firing points, earthen and concrete bunkers. Once attacked and neutralised the assault battalion would be removed from the line and used against another enemy defensive position. In Flames Of War The new Inzhenerno-Saperniy Batalon (Engineer-Sapper Battalion) is featured in our third Operation Bagration battle book River Of Heroes. This box set gives you all you need to get your batalon started.
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