Operation Bagration
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| Part of the Eastern Front of World War II | |||||||||
 Deployments during Operation Bagration | |||||||||
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 Germany Hungary Romania |
Air support:  France | ||||||||
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Initially: 486,493 combat personnel ~849,000 total 118 tanks 452 assault guns 3,236 field guns and howitzers 920 aircraft In total (Soviet sources): 1,036,760 personnel ~800 tanks 530 assault guns 7,760 field guns 2,320 anti-aircraft guns ~1,000–1,300 aircraft |
Initially: 1,670,300 personnel 3,841 tanks and 1,977 assault guns 32,718 guns, rocket launchers and mortars 7,799 aircraft In total (Frieser): ~2,500,000 personnel ~6,000 tanks and assault guns ~45,000 guns, rocket launchers and mortars ~8,000 aircraft | ||||||||
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Zaloga:
Frieser:
Glantz and House:
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Glantz and House:
2,447 guns 822 aircraft | ||||||||
Operation Bagration (Russian: Операция Багратион, romanized: Operatsiya Bagration) was an operation by the Red Army of the Soviet Union against the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany that happened on the Eastern Front of the European theatre of World War II and took place from June - August 1944. The operation was targeted at German Army Group Center stationed in German occupied Soviet Byelorussia. Two weeks earlier Operation Overlord was started by the Western Allies restarting the Western Front and now Germany and the other European Axis powers had to fight on three fronts. the Eastern Front, the Italian Front, and the Western Front. It is considered to be one of the greatest military defeats in German history with over 450,000 casualties. The operation saw the Soviets enter the Baltics where the city of Vilnius would be liberated. the Soviets also advanced to Warsaw, where due to the nearing Red Army, caused the Home Army to launch the Warsaw Uprising. but the Red Army would not fully libeerate Warsaw fully until January 1945 as part of the Vistula–Oder offensive.
Notes
- ↑ Named after Prince Pyotr Bagration
Citations
- ↑ Roberts, Geoffrey (2006). Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939–1953. Yale University Press. p. 202. ISBN 978-0-300-11204-7.
- ↑ Baxter, Ian (2020). Operation Bagration: The Soviet Destruction of German Army Group Center, 1944. Casemate. ISBN 978-1-61200-924-7.
- ↑ Frieser 2007, p. 531.
- ↑ Citino 2017, p. 171.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Frieser 2007, p. 534.
- ↑ Glantz & Orenstein 2004, p. 4.
- 1 2 Glantz & House 1995, p. 132.
- ↑ Glantz & House 1995, p. 201.
- ↑ Zaloga 1996, p. 71.
- ↑ Frieser 2007, pp. 593–594.
- ↑ Алексей Исаев. Цена Победы. Операция «Багратион» Эхо Москвы. 17.08.2009
- ↑ Glantz & Orenstein 2004, p. 176.
- ↑ "Наша Победа. День за днём — проект РИА Новости". Archived from the original on 2013-07-28. Retrieved 2010-07-07.
- ↑ Glantz & House 1995, p. 298.
- ↑ Krivosheev 1997, p. 371.
- 1 2 Krivosheev 1997, p. 203.
- ↑ Norman Davies, "Europe at War", Swedish ISBN 978-91-37-13109-2, chapter 1, p. 40 in the Swedish translation (table of killed soldiers in the largest battles and campaigns)
Bibliography
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Further reading
- Beevor, Antony; Vinogradova, Luba, eds. (2006). A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army. Pimlico Books. ISBN 978-1845950156.
- Bruoygard, Terje (2013). Operation Art in Theory and War: A Comparison of Soviet Theory and the Red Army's Conduct in Operation Bagration 1944 (PDF) (Master's thesis). Quantico, VA: USMC Command and Staff College. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 December 2023. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
- Mazower, Mark (2008). Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe. London: Allen Lane. ISBN 978-0713996814.
- Merridale, Catherine (2006). Ivan's war: the Red Army 1939 - 1945 (Paperback ed.). London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-21809-7.
- Zetterling, Niklas; Frankson, Anders (March 1998). "Analyzing World War II eastern front battles 1". The Journal of Slavic Military Studies. 11 (1). Routledge Taylor & Francis Group: 176–203. doi:10.1080/13518049808430334. ISSN 1351-8046.
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- Operation Bagration: Soviet Offensive of 1944
- Operation Bagration (video) Archived 19 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine: lecture by the military historian Robert Citino at the 2014 International Conference on World War II, via the official Livestream channel of The National WWII Museum.
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