Part of the USSR's invasion of occupied Poland and Germany during WWII
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East Pomeranian Offensive East Pomeranian strategic offensive operation
Part of the Eastern Front of World War II
Soviet troops manning two M16 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage (MGMC) self-propelled anti-aircraft vehicles (half-tracks) in Danzig, March 1945.
Date
24 February – 4 April 1945
Location
Pomerania, Danzig-West Prussia inside Germany
Result
Soviet victory
Belligerents
Germany
Soviet Union Poland
Commanders and leaders
Walter Weiß Dietrich von Saucken (2nd Army)
Konstantin Rokossovsky (2nd Belorussian Front)
Strength
unknown
996,100[1]
Casualties and losses
Unknown
234,360
55,315 killed or missing
179,045 wounded[1]
Materiel destroyed or captured
1,027 tanks and self-propelled guns[2]
1,005 guns and mortars[2]
1,073 aircraft[2]
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East Prussia
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The East Pomeranian strategic offensive operation (Russian: Восточно-Померанская наступательная операция) was an offensive by the Soviet Red Army against the German Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front. It took place in Pomerania and West Prussia from 10 February – 4 April 1945.
The operation happened in four phases:
Konitz-Köslin offensive operation 24 February – 6 March 1945
Danzig offensive operation 7–31 March 1945
Arnswalde–Kolberg offensive operation 1–18 March 1945
Altdamm offensive operation 18 March – 4 April 1945 (near Stettin)
It was the East Pomeranian offensive that prevented Zhukov from reaching Berlin in February (the object of the massive Vistula–Oder offensive), since it became a priority to clear German forces from Pomerania first.
^ abGlantz (1995), p. 300
^ abcLiedtke 2008, p. 585.
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