Amphibious operation by the Red Army during World War II
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Moonsund landing operation
Part of the Eastern Front of World War II
A map depicting the fighting on Saaremaa island
Date
29 September 1944 – 24 November 1944
Location
West Estonian archipelago (Moonsund archipelago), Estonia
Result
Soviet victory
Belligerents
Germany
Soviet Union Finland[1]
Commanders and leaders
Ferdinand Schörner
Leonid Govorov
Units involved
Army Group North
Leningrad Front
Strength
18,000
unknown
Casualties and losses
unknown
unknown
v
t
e
Eastern Front
Naval warfare
Baltic Sea
Black Sea
Arctic Ocean
1941
Barbarossa
Brest
Białystok–Minsk
1st Baltic
Brody
Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina
1st Smolensk
Uman
Odessa
1st Kiev
Tallinn
Leningrad
Sea of Azov
1st Kharkov
1st Crimea
Sevastopol
Rostov
Gorky
Moscow
Finland
Kerch
Chechnya
Air war 1941
1942
Lyuban
Barvenkovo–Lozovaya
Rzhev
Toropets–Kholm
Demyansk
Kholm
2nd Kharkov
Case Blue
Caucasus
Rzhev–Sychyovka
Sinyavino
Stalingrad
Velikiye Luki
Mars
Little Saturn
1943
Iskra
Ostrogozhsk–Rossosh
Voronezh–Kharkov
Polar Star
3rd Kharkov
Gorky Blitz
Kursk
1st Donbas
Belgorod-Kharkov
2nd Donbas
2nd Smolensk
Lenino
Dnieper
Nevel
2nd Kiev
1944
Dnieper–Carpathian
Leningrad–Novgorod
Narva
2nd Crimea
1st Jassy–Kishinev
Karelia
Bagration
Lvov–Sandomierz
Doppelkopf
2nd Jassy–Kishinev
Dukla Pass
2nd Baltic
Belgrade
Debrecen
Petsamo–Kirkenes
Courland
Gumbinnen
Budapest
1945
Vistula–Oder
Western Carpathian
East Prussia
Silesia
Breslau
Solstice
East Pomerania
Lake Balaton
Drava
Moravia–Ostrava
Vienna
Bratislava–Brno
Nagykanizsa–Körmend
Berlin
Prague
Prague uprising
Czech Radio
Slivice
v
t
e
Estonia 1944
Kingisepp-Gdov
Narva
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
March Bombing
Tallinn
Narva
Auvere
Sinimäed
Tartu
Tallinn
Porkuni
Moonsund Archipelago
Tehumardi
v
t
e
Leningrad and the Baltics 1941–44
1941
June in Lithuania
Summer War
Strategic defensive
Evacuation of Tallinn
Leningrad
Oranienbaum
Tikhvin
1942
Lyuban
Toropets–Kholm
Demyansk
Kholm
Sinyavino
1943
Iskra
Polar Star
Krasny Bor
Mga
1944
Relief of Leningrad
Narva
Karelian Isthmus
Vilnius
Šiauliai
Kaunas
Tartu
Riga
Tallinn
Moonsund Archipelago
Memel
Courland
The Moonsund landing operation (Russian: Моонзундская десантная операция; Estonian: Lääne-Eesti saarte kaitsmine; Swedish: Moonsund Invasionen), also known as the Moonzund landing operation, was an amphibious operation and offensive by the Red Army during World War II, taking place in late 1944. It was part of the Baltic offensive, and was designed to clear German forces of Army Group North from the islands in East Baltic Sea, the West Estonian archipelago (Moonsund archipelago). The attacking forces were from the 8th Army of the Leningrad Front.
The Estonian islands were occupied largely by units of the German 23rd Infantry Division, which had been split across the three islands and reinforced with a variety of artillery, coastal artillery, and assault engineer detachments.
^Õun, Mati; Ojalo, Hanno (2010). Võitlused Läänemerel 1943–1945. Tallinn: Grenader. ISBN 978-9949-448-42-5.
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Germany
Soviet Union
Finland[1]