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Battle of the Dnieper
Part of the Eastern Front of World War II
Map of the battle of the Dnieper and linked operations
Date
26 August 1943 – 23 December 1943 (3 months, 3 weeks and 6 days)
Location
Dnieper River, Soviet Union
Result
Soviet victory
Territorial changes
Soviets reclaim left-bank Ukraine, including the city of Kiev and Donets basin
Belligerents
Soviet Union
Germany Romania
Commanders and leaders
Georgy Zhukov Aleksandr Vasilevsky Nikolai Vatutin Ivan Konev Rodion Malinovsky Fyodor Tolbukhin Konstantin Rokossovsky
Erich von Manstein Ewald von Kleist Günther von Kluge
Units involved
1st Ukrainian Front 2nd Ukrainian Front 3rd Ukrainian Front 4th Ukrainian Front 1st Belorussian Front
Army Group South
1st Panzer Army
4th Panzer Army
8th Army
6th Army (until 17 September 1943)
Army Group A
6th Army (re-subordinated from 17 September 1943)[1]
Army Group Center
2nd Army
Strength
26 August: 2,633,000 men (1,450,000 reinforcements)[2] 51,200 guns and mortars[2] 2,400 tanks and assault guns[2] 2,850 combat aircraft[2]
On 1 November 1943:[3] Army Group South: - 722,376 personnel; 6th Army of Army Group A: - 182,236 personnel; 2nd Army of Army Group Center: - 200,111 personnel; Total- 1,104,723 personnel. Army Group South armoured strength as of 10 November 1943:[4] - 713 operational tanks; - 271 operational assault guns; - 984 operational AFV's in total. In repairs: - 894 tanks; - 302 assault guns. Luftflotte 4 strength on 10 October 1943:[5] - 793 operational aircraft (all types) - 1,149 aircraft in total (incl. in repairs)
On 1 November 1943:[6] - 85,564 personnel.
Casualties and losses
Krivosheev: 1,285,977 men[7]
348,815 killed or missing
937,162 wounded or sick
Frieser:
1,687,164 men[8]
417,323 killed or missing
1,269,841 wounded or sick
Forczyk:[9] - 290,000 killed or missing - 1,000,000+ in total
Germany Forczyk:[10] - 102,000 killed or missing - 372,000+ in total Romania Unknown
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The Battle of the Dnieper was a military campaign that took place in 1943 on the Eastern Front of World War II. Being one of the largest operations of the war, it involved almost four million troops at one point and stretched over a 1,400 kilometres (870 mi) front.
Over four months, the eastern bank of the Dnieper was recovered from German forces by five of the Red Army's fronts, which conducted several assault river crossings to establish several lodgements on the western bank. Kiev was later liberated in the Battle of Kiev. 2,438 Red Army soldiers were awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for their involvement.[11]
^Frieser, Karl-Heinz. The Eastern Front 1943-1944: The War in the East and on the Neighbouring Fronts. Oxford University Press, 2017, p. 356.
^ abcdFrieser et al. 2007, p. 343.
^OKH Org.Abt. I Nr. I/5645/43 g.Kdos. Iststärke des Feldheeres Stand 1.11.43. NARA T78, R528, F768.
^Oberkommando des Heeres. Geheime Kommandosache. Panzerlage der Heeresgruppe Süd. Stand am 10 November 1943. Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv (BA-MA) RH 10/52, fol. 80.
^Frieser, Karl-Heinz. Germany and the Second World War: Volume VIII: The Eastern Front 1943-1944: The War in the East and on the Neighbouring Fronts. Oxford University Press, 2017, p. 364.
^OKH Org.Abt. I Nr. I/5645/43 g.Kdos. Iststärke des Feldheeres Stand 1.11.43. NARA T78, R528, F770.
^Кривошеев, Г.Ф. (2001). "Россия и СССР в войнах XX века: Потери вооруженных сил". ОЛМА-ПРЕСС.
^Frieser et al. 2007, p. 379.
^Forczyk, Robert. The Dnepr 1943: Hitler's Eastern Rampart Crumbles. Osprey Publishing 2016, p. 91.
^Forczyk, Robert. The Dnepr 1943: Hitler's Eastern Rampart Crumbles. Osprey Publishing 2016, p. 91.
^Military Review. Command and General Staff School. 1993. p. 2-PA75.
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