Background The Battle of Kursk was a Second World War engagement between German and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front near Kursk (450 kilometres or 280 miles south-west of Moscow) in the…
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Operation Bagration – Evacuation from Minsk (July 1944)
Background Operation Bagration (/bʌɡrʌtiˈɒn/; Russian: Oперация Багратио́н, Operatsiya Bagration) was the codename for the Soviet 1944 Belorussian Strategic Offensive Operation, (Russian: Белорусская наступательная операция «Багратион», Belorusskaya nastupatelnaya Operatsiya Bagration) a military campaign…
Blocking Action at Krupki, June 1944.
Background Operation Bagration (/bʌɡrʌtiˈɒn/; Russian: Oперация Багратио́н, Operatsiya Bagration) was the codename for the Soviet 1944 Belorussian Strategic Offensive Operation, (Russian: Белорусская наступательная операция «Багратион», Belorusskaya nastupatelnaya Operatsiya Bagration) a military campaign…
Battle of Orsha (June 1944)
Background Operation Bagration (/bʌɡrʌtiˈɒn/; Russian: Oперация Багратио́н, Operatsiya Bagration) was the codename for the Soviet 1944 Belorussian Strategic Offensive Operation, (Russian: Белорусская наступательная операция «Багратион», Belorusskaya nastupatelnaya Operatsiya Bagration) a military campaign…
Fourth Battle of the Chir River (Dec 1942)
Background On 10 December, the Fourth Panzer Army had begun its drive to relieve the Sixth Army at Stalingrad. Despite being heavily engaged along the Chir, the XLVIII Panzer Korps had the…
Third Battle of the Chir River (Dec 1942)
Background On 10 December, the Fourth Panzer Army had begun its drive to relieve the Sixth Army at Stalingrad. Despite being heavily engaged along the Chir, the XLVIII Panzer Korps had the…
Second Battle of the Chir River (Dec 1942)
Background From 9-11 December, the 11th Panzer Division fought a series of running battles, successively eliminating Soviet bridgeheads across the Chir. The division continually marched at night, fighting during the day, using…
Battle for State Farm 79 (Dec 1942)
Background The Chir River is a tributary of the Don. Near their confluence the Chir River battles occurred in December of 1942. Generaloberst Friedrich Paulus’s Sixth Army, at Stalingrad, only 25 miles…
Third Battle of Kharkov (1943)
Background The Third Battle of Kharkov was a series of battles on the Eastern Front of World War II, undertaken by the German Army Group South against the Red Army, around the…
Battle for Berlin (1945)
Background The battle in Berlin was an end phase of the war against Nazi Germany. The battle encompassed the attack by three Soviet Army Groups to capture not only Berlin but the…