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Name: Operation Bagration

Type: Event

Start: 1944 AD

End: 1944 AD

Parent: World War II (Eastern Theatre)

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Was the Soviet offensive against German-occupied Belarus during World War II.

Chronology


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1. Vitebsk-Orsha Offensive


Was a Soviet military offensive during World War II where Vitebsk and Orsha were conquered from the Germans.

  • June 1944: The Soviets reached the Berezina River by 28 June.
  • June 1944: Red Army overruns Orsha, North-East of Minsk.

  • 2. Bobruysk Offensive


    Was a Soviet military offensive during World War II where Bobruysk was liberated.

  • June 1944: The Red Army envelops Bobruysk.

  • 3. Polotsk Offensive


    Was a Soviet military offensive during World War II where Polotsk was liberated.

  • July 1944: USSR Troops of First Baltic Front overrun Polotsk.

  • 4. Minsk Offensive


    Was a Soviet military offensive during World War II where Minsk was liberated.

  • July 1944: Minsk falls to Third and First White Russian Fronts.

  • 5. Vilnius Offensive


    Was a Soviet military offensive during World War II where Vilnius was liberated.

  • July 1944: Molodechno was taken by Soviet units of the 11th Guards Army, 5th Guards Tank Army and 3rd Guards Cavalry Corps on 5 July.
  • July 1944: The city of Vilnius fell to the Red Army on 13 July.
  • July 1944: Soviet forces reached Vilnius, held by units of the German 3rd Panzer Army.

  • 6. Belostock Offensive


    Was a Soviet military offensive during World War II where Białystok (Poland) was liberated.

  • July 1944: Soviet converging columns of Third and Second White Russian Fronts overrun Grodno, rail and road junction on route to East Prussia.
  • July 1944: The Soviet 3rd Army reached the outskirts of Białystok itself, despite strong resistance from the LV Corps. It stormed the city and took it.

  • 7. Šiauliai Offensive


    Was an operation of the Soviet forces of the 1st Baltic Front, commanded by General Hovhannes Bagramyan, conducted from 5 July to 29 August 1944. It drove German troops from much of Lithuania, with the main tactical objective being the city of Šiauliai.

  • August 1944: Soviet advances during Operation Bagraton and Šiauliai Offensive.
  • August 1944: Soviet troops liberated the cities of Jelgava and Kaunas.
  • July 1944: On 27 July the Red Army captured Šiauliai and Daugavpils.
  • July 1944: By July 22 Soviet troops had captured Panevežys.

  • 8. Lublin-Brest Offensive


    Strategic offensive by the Soviet Red Army to clear the Nazi German forces from the regions of Eastern Poland and Western Belarus.

  • July 1944: Soviet troops of First White Russian Front overrun Lublin.
  • July 1944: Troops of First White Russian Front overrun Brest Litovsk.
  • August 1944: By 2 August, the 1st Belorussian Front’s left wing armies seized bridgeheads over the Vistula at Magnuszew (Chuikov's 47th Army) and Puławy.

  • 9. Kaunas Offensive


    Was an offensive of the Soviet Red Army to clear the area of Kaunas from German forces.

  • July 1944: Using the success of the Tank Corps, the troops of the Soviet 33rd Army entered and secured Vilkaviškis and the railway station of Mariampolė.
  • July 1944: The German resistance on the approaches to the Neman was broken.

  • 10. Osovets Offensive


    Was an offensive of the Soviet Red Army to clear the area of Osowiec (Poland) from German forces.

  • August 1944: Joseph Stalin's Order no. 166 for that day noted the capture of the fortress of Osowiec.

  • Selected Sources


  • Ian Kershaw (trad. de l'anglais), La Fin : Allemagne, 1944-1945, Paris, Seuil, 2012, p.137
  • Operation Bagration, 22 June-19 August 1944. United States Military Academy of West Point. Retrieved on 6 April 2024 on https://s3.amazonaws.com/usma-media/inline-images/academics/academic_departments/history/WWII%20Europe%20Med/WWIIEurope30.jpg
  • Williams, M.H. (1989): United States army in World War II - Special Studies - Chronology 1941-1945, p. 219
  • Williams, M.H. (1989): United States army in World War II - Special Studies - Chronology 1941-1945, p. 223
  • Williams, M.H. (1989): United States army in World War II - Special Studies - Chronology 1941-1945, p. 224
  • Williams, M.H. (1989): United States army in World War II - Special Studies - Chronology 1941-1945, p. 231
  • Williams, M.H. (1989): United States army in World War II - Special Studies - Chronology 1941-1945, p. 235
  • Williams, M.H. (1989): United States army in World War II - Special Studies - Chronology 1941-1945, p. 238
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  • Вся Москва-Информ (1995): День победы: справочник посвящается ветеранам великой отечественной войны, p.45
  • Юрий Емельянов (2021): Иосиф Сталин. Часть 3. Верховный главнокомандующий, Litres
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