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Operation Bagration
Part of the Eastern Front of World War II

Deployments during Operation Bagration
Date22 June – 19 August 1944
(1 month and 4 weeks)
Location
Soviet Union (present-day Belarus, Baltic states, and Ukraine), and Eastern Poland
Result Soviet victory[2]
Territorial
changes		 Red Army retakes all of Byelorussian SSR and gains foothold in Eastern Poland.
Belligerents
Operation Bagration Germany
Operation Bagration Hungary[1]
Operation Bagration Romania		 Operation Bagration Soviet Union
Poland Poland
Commanders and leaders
  • Nazi Germany Ernst Busch
  • Nazi Germany Walter Model
  • Nazi Germany Hans Jordan
  • Nazi Germany Georg-Hans Reinhardt
  • Nazi Germany Kurt von Tippelskirch
  • Nazi Germany Walter Weiß
  • Nazi Germany Vincenz Müller (POW)
  • Soviet Union Konstantin Rokossovsky
  • Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov
  • Soviet Union Aleksandr Vasilevsky
  • Soviet Union Ivan Bagramyan
  • Soviet Union Georgiy Zakharov
  • Soviet Union Ivan Chernyakhovsky
Units involved
  • Army Group Center
  • 9th Army
  • 3rd Panzer Army
  • 4th Army
  • 2nd Army
  • 1st Baltic Front
  • 1st Belorussian Front
  • 2nd Belorussian Front
  • 3rd Belorussian Front
  • 1st Polish Army
  • Fighter Squadron 2/30 Normandie-Niemen
Strength
Initially:
486,493 combat personnel,[3] ~849,000 total [4]
118 tanks[5]
452 assault guns[5]
3,236 field guns and howitzers[5]
920 aircraft[5]
In total:
Soviet sources:[6]
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[5][7]
32,718 guns, rocket launchers and mortars[5]
7,799 aircraft[5]
In total:
Frieser:
~2,500,000 personnel
~6,000 tanks and assault guns[5]
~45,000 guns, rocket launchers and mortars[5]
~8,000 aircraft[5][8]
Casualties and losses
Glantz and House:[7]
~450,000 combat casualties
Frieser:
26,397 killed
109,776 wounded
262,929 missing and captured
399,102 overall[9]
Zaloga:
~150,000–225,000 killed or missing; ~150,000 captured[10]
Isayev:
~500,000 combat casualties[11]
Soviet sources:[12]
~381,000 killed
158,480 captured

Glantz and House:[13]
770,888 (including ~550,000 combat casualties)

~180,000 killed or missing
~340,000–590,848 wounded or sick
2,957 tanks and assault guns[14]
2,447 guns[15]
822 aircraft[15]

Operation Bagration (Russian: Операция Багратион, romanized: Operatsiya Bagration) was the codename for the 1944 Soviet Byelorussian strategic offensive operation[a] (Russian: Белорусская наступательная операция «Багратион», romanized: Belorusskaya nastupatelnaya operatsiya "Bagration"), a military campaign fought between 22 June and 19 August 1944 in Soviet Byelorussia in the Eastern Front of World War II,[16] just over two weeks after the start of Operation Overlord in the west, causing Nazi Germany to have to fight on two major fronts at the same time. The Soviet Union destroyed 28 of 34 divisions of Army Group Centre and completely shattered the German front line.[17] It was the biggest defeat in German military history, with around 450,000 German casualties,[18] while 300,000 other German soldiers were cut off in the Courland Pocket.

On 22 June 1944, the Red Army attacked Army Group Centre in Byelorussia, with the objective of encircling and destroying its main component armies. By 28 June, the German 4th Army had been destroyed, along with most of the Third Panzer and Ninth Armies.[19][20] The Red Army exploited the collapse of the German front line to encircle German formations in the vicinity of Minsk in the Minsk Offensive and destroy them, with Minsk liberated on 4 July. With the end of effective German resistance in Byelorussia, the Soviet offensive continued on to Lithuania, Poland and Romania over the course of July and August.

The Red Army successfully used the Soviet deep battle and maskirovka (deception) strategies for the first time to a full extent, albeit with continuing heavy losses. Operation Bagration diverted German mobile reserves to the central sectors, removing them from the Lublin–Brest and Lvov–Sandomierz areas, enabling the Soviets to undertake the Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive[21] and Lublin–Brest Offensive.[22] This allowed the Red Army to reach the Vistula river and Warsaw, which in turn put Soviet forces within striking distance of Berlin, conforming to the concept of Soviet deep operations—striking into the enemy's strategic depths.[23]

  1. ^ Baxter, Ian (2020). Operation Bagration: The Soviet Destruction of German Army Group Center, 1944. Casemate. ISBN 978-1-61200-924-7.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Frieser 2007, p. 531.
  4. ^ Citino 2017, p. 171.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Frieser 2007, p. 534.
  6. ^ Glantz & Orenstein 2004, p. 4.
  7. ^ a b Glantz & House 1995, p. 132.
  8. ^ Glantz & House 1995, p. 201.
  9. ^ Frieser p. 593–594
  10. ^ Zaloga 1996, p. 71
  11. ^ Алексей Исаев. Цена Победы. Операция «Багратион» Эхо Москвы. 17.08.2009
  12. ^ Glantz & Orenstein 2004, p. 176.
  13. ^ Glantz & House 1995, p. 298.
  14. ^ Krivosheev 1997, p. 371.
  15. ^ a b Krivosheev 1997, p. 203.
  16. ^ Not to be confused with the 1943 Belorussian Strategic Offensive Operation (3 October – 31 December 1943)
  17. ^ Buchner, Alex. Ostfront 1944: The German Defensive Battles on the Russian Front 1944. Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. 1995, p. 212.
  18. ^ 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)
  19. ^ Willmott 1984, p. 154.
  20. ^ Zaloga 1996, p. 7.
  21. ^ Watt 2008, p. 699.
  22. ^ Watt 2008, p. 669.
  23. ^ Watt 2008, p. 670.


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