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Alness United entered a period of abeyance and therefore will not play in the league from this season onwards though the number of entrants remained at nine as Bonar Bridge were reformed for the start of the season.
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Center Point Road Tour
The Center Point Road Tour is the upcoming fourth headlining concert tour by American country music artist Thomas Rhett in support of his fourth studio album "Center Point Road" (2019).
It is set to begin on May 29, 2020, in Gilford, New Hampshire, and is set to conclude on August 29, 2020, in Bristow, Virginia.
On December 12, 2019, Rhett announced he would be embarking on his fourth headlining concert tour.
Cole Swindell and Hardy were announced as opening acts.
88th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
The 88th Rifle Division was twice formed as an infantry division of the Red Army, first as part of the prewar buildup of forces and again in the spring of 1942, serving until after the end of the Great Patriotic War.
In its first formation in the far north it had an unusual "shtat" (table of organization and equipment) probably to facilitate its movement in the roadless tundra and forests of that region.
It played a large role in holding and then pushing back the Finnish III Army Corps during Operation Silver Fox and for this success was redesignated as the 23rd Guards Rifle Division.
A new 88th began forming in April, 1942 based on the first formation of the 39th Rifle Brigade, mostly in the Moscow Military District and was soon assigned to the 31st Army of Western Front; it would remain in that Army for the duration of the war.
It took part in the savage and mostly fruitless fighting around the Rzhev salient into the winter of 1942/43 and then in the summer offensive that liberated Smolensk.
During the following fall it became badly depleted as Western Front repeatedly attempted to batter its way through the German defenses to Orsha.
After rebuilding in the spring of 1944 it served as part of 3rd Belorussian Front during Operation Bagration, soon being awarded a battle honor as well as the Order of the Red Banner.
During this offensive it reached the border of East Prussia and won a second decoration in the unsuccessful Gumbinnen-Goldap Operation.
During the East Prussian Offensive in January, 1945 it made steady progress, eventually earning its third Order after the battle for the Heiligenbeil Pocket.
After the East Prussian campaign the 31st Army was railed south to Czechoslovakia where the 88th ended the war marching on Prague.
Despite a fine record as a fighting unit the division was soon disbanded.
The 88th Rifle Division began forming for the first time on the day the war began in Europe, September 1, 1939 at Arkhangelsk in the Arkhangelsk Military District.
Maj. Gen. Andrei Ivanovich Zelentsov took command on June 14, 1940.
As of June 22, 1941 the division's order of battle was as follows:
Zelentsov also served as the acting commander of Arkhangelsk Military District from June 27 to July 5.
The division remained near Arkhangelsk until the beginning of August, when it was shipped across the White Sea to Murmansk.
Sharp states that it's possible the 88th had a special organization for operations in the roadless arctic terrain because it did not have a howitzer regiment and when it was disembarked from 10 small transports from August 9-14 it had just 7,818 personnel on strength with 58 artillery pieces of all calibres, 22 trucks and 1,928 horses in total.
It also had a full reconnaissance battalion versus the standard company.
This does not match any prewar "shtat" but appears to be a lightly-armed organization utilizing horse packing for most of its transport needs.
The German-Finnish Operation Silver Fox had begun on July 1 with the goal of cutting the Murmansk railway and on August 7 the Finnish III Corps, commanded by Lt. Gen. Hjalmar Siilasvuo, captured Kestenga.
By now he was 65km short of his objective of Loukhi.
The Soviet 14th Army sent in a group of reserves known as the Grivnik Brigade which slowed the Finnish drive.
At this point the 88th joined the Kemskaya Operations Group and took over defense of the Kestenga-Loukhi road, one of the few avenues of operation in this mostly trackless wilderness.
On August 15, while leading the division as it attempted to establish defensive positions along the Sofiangi River, General Zelentsov was killed in a German air attack; he was replaced five days later by Col. Vladimir Aleksandrovich Solovyov.
By this time the Finnish forces were exhausted and on August 25 General Siilasvuo called a halt to regroup.
After being reinforced by units of the German XXXVI Mountain Corps the Finns resumed their offensive on October 30.
The 88th Division had also been reinforced and had had time to improve its positions.
Despite this the attackers made progress and by November 6 two battalions of the 426th Rifle Regiment and a company of the 611th Regiment were fighting in encirclement.
The next day two Finnish and one German battalion that had earlier infiltrated between the two Regiments were driven back 45km along the Kestenga-Loukhi road by other Soviet forces.
On November 9 the encircled battalions of the 426th, low on ammunition and without food, were forced to break out; only 275 men returned to friendly lines.
On November 16 the offensive subsided, in part due to heavy casualties on the Axis side but also due to diplomatic pressure from the United States government which threatened consequences for Finland if its supply deliveries to the USSR were interrupted.
However this might have been, the division was credited with stopping the Finnish drive and largely in recognition of this it was redesignated as the 23rd Guards Rifle Division on March 17, 1942, one of only two Guards divisions created (the other being the 10th Guards Rifle) in the Arctic.
On February 22, 1943 two soldiers of the division would be posthumously made Heroes of the Soviet Union for their roles in the November battles.
"Krasnoarmeets" Mikhail Egorovich Rodionov had been a machinegunner in the 2nd Battalion of the 426th Rifle Regiment.
While fighting in encirclement Rodionov helped to drive off seven enemy attacks with his fire, despite being wounded.
Following a second wound he lost conscioness; when he revived he killed himself with a grenade before being captured.
Cpl.
Fyodor Afanasevich Luzan commanded a radio platoon of the 758th Rifle Regiment.
On November 24, while fighting for the railway station on the Loukhi-Kastenga line his battalion was surrounded by enemy tanks and infantry.
In order to help his comrades to break through to friendly lines Luzan called in artillery fire on his own position.
Soon after, as SS troops were breaking into his dugout, he blew up himself and his radio with a grenade, taking several attackers with him.
The 88th began forming again on April 29, 1942 based on the 39th Rifle Brigade at Kizner in the Urals Military District.
The 1st formation of the 39th Rifle Brigade began in October, 1941 at Alma-Ata in the Central Asia Military District.
It was formed from the Alma-Ata and Fruzensk Rifle-Machine gun Schools, largely with students of Kazakh nationality.
In December the brigade was shipped north and by January 1, 1942 was in the reserves of Northwestern Front, under command of Col. V. G. Noziyak.
It was then assigned to 4th Shock Army taking part in the Toropets-Kholm Offensive and on January 21 was one of the units recognized for its role in the liberation of Toropets and the capture of the German supply base there.
By the end of the month 4th Shock came under command of Kalinin Front and the brigade remained in the Toropets salient to the west of the German-held Rzhev salient until April when it was pulled back well east of Moscow where it was disbanded to form the cadre for the new 88th Rifle Division.
Although it physically formed in the Urals the new 88th Division, based on an existing cadre, was very soon assigned to the Moscow Military District.
Its order of battle was similar to that of the 1st formation:
Col. Andrei Filippovich Bolotov was assigned to command of the division on the day it began forming.
In June it was assigned to the 4th Reserve Army in the Reserve of the Supreme High Command and then in July to 31st Army in Western Front.
Western Front began its part in the First Rzhev–Sychyovka Offensive Operation on August 4.
A powerful artillery preparation reportedly knocked out 80 percent of German weapons, after which the German defenses were penetrated on both sides of Pogoreloe Gorodishche and the 31st Army's mobile group rushed through the breaches towards Zubtsov.
By the evening of August 6 the breach in the German 9th Army's front had expanded up to 30km wide and up to 25km deep.
The following day the "STAVKA" appointed Army Gen. G. K. Zhukov to coordinate the offensives of Western and Kalinin Fronts; Zhukov proposed to liberate Rzhev with 31st and 30th Armies as soon as August 9.
However, heavy German counterattacks, complicated by adverse weather soon slowed the advance drastically.
On August 23 the 31st Army, in concert with elements of the 29th Army, finally liberated Zubtsov.
While this date is officially considered the end of the offensive in Soviet sources, in fact bitter fighting continued west of Zubtsov into mid-September.
At dawn on September 8, 29th and 31st Armies went on a determined offensive to seize the southern part of Rzhev.
Despite resolute attacks through the following day against the German 161st Infantry Division the 31st made little progress.
It suspended its attacks temporarily on September 16 but resumed them with three divisions, including the 88th, on its right flank on September 21-23 with similar lack of success.
Over the course of the fighting from August 4 to September 15 the Army suffered a total of 43,321 total losses in personnel.
In the planning for Operation Mars a directive was sent on September 28/29 from the command of Western Front to 31st Army, "consisting of the 88th, 239th, 336th and 20th Guards Rifle Divisions, the 32nd and 145th Tank Brigades... [to advance] along the Osuga, Artemovo, and Ligastaevo axis."
The offensive finally began on November 25 when the Army's shock group, consisting of the above forces minus the 20th Guards, attacked the German 102nd Infantry Division.
That division's history recorded:In three days of fighting the tank brigades were decimated and the rifle divisions suffered heavy losses, up to 50 percent on the first day alone.
The Army then went over to the defense.
On December 11 it went back to the attack, in support of 20th Army.
These attacks continued until the 18th.
In February, 1943 the armies of Western and Kalinin Fronts began preparing for what would become the Rzhev-Vyasma Offensive Operation.
31st Army was to be prepared to attack by February 20-21.
In the event these plans were delayed and eventually superseded when German 9th Army launched Operation "Büffel" on March 1 and began its phased withdrawal from the salient, pursued by 31st and other armies through the rest of the month.
In June the 88th was assigned to the new 45th Rifle Corps, along with the 220th and 331st Rifle Divisions.
On August 7, the first day of Operation "Suvorov", the only real Soviet success was achieved by 31st Army against XXXIX Panzer Corps in the Yartsevo sector.
The main effort was made by the 36th and 45th Corps, the latter of which had the 220th and 331st Divisions in first echelon and the 88th in second.
The attack gathered steam late in the day as the Corps attacked east of the Vop River.
It faced the inexperienced 113th Infantry Division which had only been at the front for two weeks.
Between 1800 and 2000 hours the Corps overran one German battalion and threw another aside; an hour later an artillery battalion had also been overrun and it was clear the 113th's front was breaking apart.
During the night two German regiments fell back 2km where a main battle line was reestablished behind the 6m-wide Vedosa River.
Sensing confusion in the German ranks the commander of 31st Army, Maj. Gen. V. A. Gluzdovskii, committed his mobile group to break through to the Minsk-Moscow highway just 6km to the south.
For a brief moment it seemed the 45th Corps and the 42nd Guards Tank Brigade might achieve a breakthrough.
The attack was resumed at dawn on August 8 and gained more ground from the 113th Infantry which was now near collapse.
By early afternoon the 260th Grenadier Regiment cracked after losing a key position and the 220th Division surged into the gap just east of the Vop.
The only substantial reserve available to German 4th Army was the 18th Panzergrenadier Division which was ordered into the counterattack.
As it arrived it could only fill the gap left by the routed units of the 113th.
The next day the two Soviet corps continued to try to batter their way through the German line but were stymied by 18th Panzergrenadiers; during this fighting Colonel Bolotov was killed by German tank or assault gun fire on his command post.
He would be replaced by Col. Gavrill Alekseevich Bulanov on August 12.
The 42nd Guards Tanks failed to reach the highway and lost 35 tanks in the process.
On the other hand a major counterattack by 18th Panzergrenadier failed to restore the original front line due to heavy Soviet artillery fire and the obstacle of the Vedosa.
After three days of fighting the situation was a stalemate, but the German reserve was fixed in place.
Within a few days the stalemate on the Smolensk front had become general.
As of September 1 the 45th Corps consisted of the 88th and 251st Rifle Divisions.
Western Front's offensive finally resumed on September 15 and by the end of the day Yartsevo was finally liberated.

Alness United entered a period of abeyance and therefore will not play in the league from this season onwards though the number of entrants remained at nine as Bonar Bridge were reformed for the start of the season.

Center Point Road Tour

The Center Point Road Tour is the upcoming fourth headlining concert tour by American country music artist Thomas Rhett in support of his fourth studio album "Center Point Road" (2019).

It is set to begin on May 29, 2020, in Gilford, New Hampshire, and is set to conclude on August 29, 2020, in Bristow, Virginia.

On December 12, 2019, Rhett announced he would be embarking on his fourth headlining concert tour.

Cole Swindell and Hardy were announced as opening acts.

88th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)

The 88th Rifle Division was twice formed as an infantry division of the Red Army, first as part of the prewar buildup of forces and again in the spring of 1942, serving until after the end of the Great Patriotic War.

In its first formation in the far north it had an unusual "shtat" (table of organization and equipment) probably to facilitate its movement in the roadless tundra and forests of that region.

It played a large role in holding and then pushing back the Finnish III Army Corps during Operation Silver Fox and for this success was redesignated as the 23rd Guards Rifle Division.

A new 88th began forming in April, 1942 based on the first formation of the 39th Rifle Brigade, mostly in the Moscow Military District and was soon assigned to the 31st Army of Western Front; it would remain in that Army for the duration of the war.

It took part in the savage and mostly fruitless fighting around the Rzhev salient into the winter of 1942/43 and then in the summer offensive that liberated Smolensk.

During the following fall it became badly depleted as Western Front repeatedly attempted to batter its way through the German defenses to Orsha.

After rebuilding in the spring of 1944 it served as part of 3rd Belorussian Front during Operation Bagration, soon being awarded a battle honor as well as the Order of the Red Banner.

During this offensive it reached the border of East Prussia and won a second decoration in the unsuccessful Gumbinnen-Goldap Operation.

During the East Prussian Offensive in January, 1945 it made steady progress, eventually earning its third Order after the battle for the Heiligenbeil Pocket.

After the East Prussian campaign the 31st Army was railed south to Czechoslovakia where the 88th ended the war marching on Prague.

Despite a fine record as a fighting unit the division was soon disbanded.

The 88th Rifle Division began forming for the first time on the day the war began in Europe, September 1, 1939 at Arkhangelsk in the Arkhangelsk Military District.

Maj. Gen. Andrei Ivanovich Zelentsov took command on June 14, 1940.

As of June 22, 1941 the division's order of battle was as follows:

Zelentsov also served as the acting commander of Arkhangelsk Military District from June 27 to July 5.

The division remained near Arkhangelsk until the beginning of August, when it was shipped across the White Sea to Murmansk.

Sharp states that it's possible the 88th had a special organization for operations in the roadless arctic terrain because it did not have a howitzer regiment and when it was disembarked from 10 small transports from August 9-14 it had just 7,818 personnel on strength with 58 artillery pieces of all calibres, 22 trucks and 1,928 horses in total.

It also had a full reconnaissance battalion versus the standard company.

This does not match any prewar "shtat" but appears to be a lightly-armed organization utilizing horse packing for most of its transport needs.

The German-Finnish Operation Silver Fox had begun on July 1 with the goal of cutting the Murmansk railway and on August 7 the Finnish III Corps, commanded by Lt. Gen. Hjalmar Siilasvuo, captured Kestenga.

By now he was 65km short of his objective of Loukhi.

The Soviet 14th Army sent in a group of reserves known as the Grivnik Brigade which slowed the Finnish drive.

At this point the 88th joined the Kemskaya Operations Group and took over defense of the Kestenga-Loukhi road, one of the few avenues of operation in this mostly trackless wilderness.

On August 15, while leading the division as it attempted to establish defensive positions along the Sofiangi River, General Zelentsov was killed in a German air attack; he was replaced five days later by Col. Vladimir Aleksandrovich Solovyov.

By this time the Finnish forces were exhausted and on August 25 General Siilasvuo called a halt to regroup.

After being reinforced by units of the German XXXVI Mountain Corps the Finns resumed their offensive on October 30.

The 88th Division had also been reinforced and had had time to improve its positions.

Despite this the attackers made progress and by November 6 two battalions of the 426th Rifle Regiment and a company of the 611th Regiment were fighting in encirclement.

The next day two Finnish and one German battalion that had earlier infiltrated between the two Regiments were driven back 45km along the Kestenga-Loukhi road by other Soviet forces.

On November 9 the encircled battalions of the 426th, low on ammunition and without food, were forced to break out; only 275 men returned to friendly lines.

On November 16 the offensive subsided, in part due to heavy casualties on the Axis side but also due to diplomatic pressure from the United States government which threatened consequences for Finland if its supply deliveries to the USSR were interrupted.

However this might have been, the division was credited with stopping the Finnish drive and largely in recognition of this it was redesignated as the 23rd Guards Rifle Division on March 17, 1942, one of only two Guards divisions created (the other being the 10th Guards Rifle) in the Arctic.

On February 22, 1943 two soldiers of the division would be posthumously made Heroes of the Soviet Union for their roles in the November battles.

"Krasnoarmeets" Mikhail Egorovich Rodionov had been a machinegunner in the 2nd Battalion of the 426th Rifle Regiment.

While fighting in encirclement Rodionov helped to drive off seven enemy attacks with his fire, despite being wounded.

Following a second wound he lost conscioness; when he revived he killed himself with a grenade before being captured.

Cpl.

Fyodor Afanasevich Luzan commanded a radio platoon of the 758th Rifle Regiment.

On November 24, while fighting for the railway station on the Loukhi-Kastenga line his battalion was surrounded by enemy tanks and infantry.

In order to help his comrades to break through to friendly lines Luzan called in artillery fire on his own position.

Soon after, as SS troops were breaking into his dugout, he blew up himself and his radio with a grenade, taking several attackers with him.

The 88th began forming again on April 29, 1942 based on the 39th Rifle Brigade at Kizner in the Urals Military District.

The 1st formation of the 39th Rifle Brigade began in October, 1941 at Alma-Ata in the Central Asia Military District.

It was formed from the Alma-Ata and Fruzensk Rifle-Machine gun Schools, largely with students of Kazakh nationality.

In December the brigade was shipped north and by January 1, 1942 was in the reserves of Northwestern Front, under command of Col. V. G. Noziyak.

It was then assigned to 4th Shock Army taking part in the Toropets-Kholm Offensive and on January 21 was one of the units recognized for its role in the liberation of Toropets and the capture of the German supply base there.

By the end of the month 4th Shock came under command of Kalinin Front and the brigade remained in the Toropets salient to the west of the German-held Rzhev salient until April when it was pulled back well east of Moscow where it was disbanded to form the cadre for the new 88th Rifle Division.

Although it physically formed in the Urals the new 88th Division, based on an existing cadre, was very soon assigned to the Moscow Military District.

Its order of battle was similar to that of the 1st formation:

Col. Andrei Filippovich Bolotov was assigned to command of the division on the day it began forming.

In June it was assigned to the 4th Reserve Army in the Reserve of the Supreme High Command and then in July to 31st Army in Western Front.

Western Front began its part in the First Rzhev–Sychyovka Offensive Operation on August 4.

A powerful artillery preparation reportedly knocked out 80 percent of German weapons, after which the German defenses were penetrated on both sides of Pogoreloe Gorodishche and the 31st Army's mobile group rushed through the breaches towards Zubtsov.

By the evening of August 6 the breach in the German 9th Army's front had expanded up to 30km wide and up to 25km deep.

The following day the "STAVKA" appointed Army Gen. G. K. Zhukov to coordinate the offensives of Western and Kalinin Fronts; Zhukov proposed to liberate Rzhev with 31st and 30th Armies as soon as August 9.

However, heavy German counterattacks, complicated by adverse weather soon slowed the advance drastically.

On August 23 the 31st Army, in concert with elements of the 29th Army, finally liberated Zubtsov.

While this date is officially considered the end of the offensive in Soviet sources, in fact bitter fighting continued west of Zubtsov into mid-September.

At dawn on September 8, 29th and 31st Armies went on a determined offensive to seize the southern part of Rzhev.

Despite resolute attacks through the following day against the German 161st Infantry Division the 31st made little progress.

It suspended its attacks temporarily on September 16 but resumed them with three divisions, including the 88th, on its right flank on September 21-23 with similar lack of success.

Over the course of the fighting from August 4 to September 15 the Army suffered a total of 43,321 total losses in personnel.

In the planning for Operation Mars a directive was sent on September 28/29 from the command of Western Front to 31st Army, "consisting of the 88th, 239th, 336th and 20th Guards Rifle Divisions, the 32nd and 145th Tank Brigades... [to advance] along the Osuga, Artemovo, and Ligastaevo axis."

The offensive finally began on November 25 when the Army's shock group, consisting of the above forces minus the 20th Guards, attacked the German 102nd Infantry Division.

That division's history recorded:In three days of fighting the tank brigades were decimated and the rifle divisions suffered heavy losses, up to 50 percent on the first day alone.

The Army then went over to the defense.

On December 11 it went back to the attack, in support of 20th Army.

These attacks continued until the 18th.

In February, 1943 the armies of Western and Kalinin Fronts began preparing for what would become the Rzhev-Vyasma Offensive Operation.

31st Army was to be prepared to attack by February 20-21.

In the event these plans were delayed and eventually superseded when German 9th Army launched Operation "Büffel" on March 1 and began its phased withdrawal from the salient, pursued by 31st and other armies through the rest of the month.

In June the 88th was assigned to the new 45th Rifle Corps, along with the 220th and 331st Rifle Divisions.

On August 7, the first day of Operation "Suvorov", the only real Soviet success was achieved by 31st Army against XXXIX Panzer Corps in the Yartsevo sector.

The main effort was made by the 36th and 45th Corps, the latter of which had the 220th and 331st Divisions in first echelon and the 88th in second.

The attack gathered steam late in the day as the Corps attacked east of the Vop River.

It faced the inexperienced 113th Infantry Division which had only been at the front for two weeks.

Between 1800 and 2000 hours the Corps overran one German battalion and threw another aside; an hour later an artillery battalion had also been overrun and it was clear the 113th's front was breaking apart.

During the night two German regiments fell back 2km where a main battle line was reestablished behind the 6m-wide Vedosa River.

Sensing confusion in the German ranks the commander of 31st Army, Maj. Gen. V. A. Gluzdovskii, committed his mobile group to break through to the Minsk-Moscow highway just 6km to the south.

For a brief moment it seemed the 45th Corps and the 42nd Guards Tank Brigade might achieve a breakthrough.

The attack was resumed at dawn on August 8 and gained more ground from the 113th Infantry which was now near collapse.

By early afternoon the 260th Grenadier Regiment cracked after losing a key position and the 220th Division surged into the gap just east of the Vop.

The only substantial reserve available to German 4th Army was the 18th Panzergrenadier Division which was ordered into the counterattack.

As it arrived it could only fill the gap left by the routed units of the 113th.

The next day the two Soviet corps continued to try to batter their way through the German line but were stymied by 18th Panzergrenadiers; during this fighting Colonel Bolotov was killed by German tank or assault gun fire on his command post.

He would be replaced by Col. Gavrill Alekseevich Bulanov on August 12.

The 42nd Guards Tanks failed to reach the highway and lost 35 tanks in the process.

On the other hand a major counterattack by 18th Panzergrenadier failed to restore the original front line due to heavy Soviet artillery fire and the obstacle of the Vedosa.

After three days of fighting the situation was a stalemate, but the German reserve was fixed in place.

Within a few days the stalemate on the Smolensk front had become general.

As of September 1 the 45th Corps consisted of the 88th and 251st Rifle Divisions.

Western Front's offensive finally resumed on September 15 and by the end of the day Yartsevo was finally liberated.