Back هجوم البلطيق Arabic Baltická operace Czech Baltische Operation German Balta Ofensivo Esperanto Ofensiva del Báltico Spanish حمله بالتیک Persian Offensive de la Baltique French המתקפה הבלטית HE Մերձբալթյան օպերացիա Armenian Serangan Baltik ID
| Baltic offensive (1944) (Baltic strategic offensive) | |||||||||
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| Part of the Eastern Front of World War II | |||||||||
 Soviet advances on the Eastern Front, 1 August 1943 – 31 December 1944 | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Soviet Union |
 Germany | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Ivan Bagramyan Leonid Govorov |
Walter Model Johannes Freißner | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
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1,546,400 troops[1] 17,500 artillery pieces 3,080 tanks and assault guns 2,640 aircraft[2] |
342,742 troops[3] unknown artillery pieces 262 tanks; 299 assault guns 321 aircraft[4] | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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61,468 KIA or MIA 218,622 WIA or sick 522 tanks 779 aircraft[1] |
October only: 30,834 KIA, WIA and MIA[5] | ||||||||
The Baltic offensive, also known as the Baltic strategic offensive,[6] was the military campaign between the northern Fronts of the Red Army and the German Army Group North in the Baltic States during the autumn of 1944. The result of the series of battles was the isolation and encirclement of the Army Group North in the Courland Pocket and Soviet re-occupation of the Baltic States.[7] In Soviet propaganda, this offensive was listed as one of Stalin's ten blows.
- ^ a b Soviet casualties and combat losses in the twentieth century London: Greenhill Books 1997
- ^ Frieser, Karl-Heinz; Schmider, Klaus; Schönherr, Klaus; Schreiber, Gerhard; Ungváry, Kristián; Wegner, Bernd The Eastern Front 1943–1944: The War in the East and on the Neighbouring Fronts, p. 636
- ^ Frieser, Karl-Heinz, p. 622
- ^ Frieser, Karl-Heinz, p. 636
- ^ Frieser, p. 641
- ^ Anderson, p. 203; Muriev, pp. 22–28; Stilwell, p. 343; Проэктор.
- ^ Д. Муриев, Описание подготовки и проведения балтийской операции 1944 года, Военно-исторический журнал, сентябрь 1984. Translation available, D. Muriyev, Preparations, Conduct of 1944 Baltic Operation Described, Military History Journal (USSR Report, Military affairs), 1984-9, pp. 22–28
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