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Battle of the Dnieper | |||||||||
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Part of the Eastern Front of World War II | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Units involved | |||||||||
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Strength | |||||||||
26 August: 2,633,000 men (1,450,000 reinforcements)[3] 51,200 guns and mortars[3] 2,400 tanks and assault guns[3] 2,850 combat aircraft[3] |
![]() - 85,564 personnel. | ||||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||||
Krivosheev: 1,285,977 men[8]
Frieser: 1,687,164 men[9]
- 290,000 killed or missing - 1,000,000+ in total |
![]() Forczyk:[11] - 102,000 killed or missing - 372,000+ in total ![]() Unknown |
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.[12]
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