Operation Bagration
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Operation Bagration was the codename for the 1944 Soviet Byelorussian strategic offensive operation, a military campaign fought between 22 June and 19 August 1944 in Soviet Byelorussia in the Eastern
The Soviet operation was named after the Georgian prince Pyotr Bagration (1765–1812), a general of the Imperial Russian Army during the Napoleonic Wars.
Field Marshal Aleksandr Vasilevsky and General Ivan Chernyakhovsky interrogate General Alfons Hitter (standing) after the battle of Vitebsk.
Two destroyed Panzer IV tanks belonging to the 20th Panzer Division, June 1944
Soviet soldiers in Polotsk, 4 July 1944
Eastern Front (World War II)
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The Eastern Front, also known as the Great Patriotic War, or the German–Soviet War, was a theatre of World War II fought between the European Axis powers and Allies, including the Soviet Union and Pol
Operation Bagration
…romanized: Belorusskaya nastupatelnaya operatsiya "Bagration"), a military campaign fought between 22 June and 19 August 1944 in Soviet Byelorussia in the Eastern Front of World War II, just over two weeks after the start of Operation Overlord in the west. It was during this operation that Nazi Germany was forced to…
Semyon Timoshenko and Georgy Zhukov in 1940
German soldiers in a Panzer III tank; Kalmyk steppe north of Stalingrad, September 1942
German infantry in Russia, June 1943
The South Western Front (Ukrainian) on 22 June 1941