Operation Bagration
At a glance:
- Series: Magill’s Guide to Military History
- Categories: Military History
- Subcategories: Wars, Battles, World War II
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, German History, Russian/Former Soviet States History
- Geographical Location: Soviet Union, Belarus
- Date: June 22-July 11, 1944
Article abstract: Type of action: Ground offensive in World War II. Result: Destruction of German Army Group Centre and liberation of Soviet White Russia.
On June 22, 1944, the Red Army opened a massive offensive, code named Operation Bagration, in White Russia. Four Soviet fronts, with a total strength of 2.4 million men, reserves included, struck Field Marshal Ernst Busch’s 700,000-man Army Group Center. Achieving strategic surprise, Soviet forces, coordinated by Marshal Alexander Vasilevsky and Marshal Georgy Zhukov, tore a 250-mile gap in the German front,...
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