Belorussian Offensive

Operation Bagration (Belorussian Strategic Offensive Operation)
Part of the Eastern Front of World War II
Deployments during Operation Bagration
Date 22 June – 19 August 1944 Location Soviet Union (present day Belarus, Baltic states), Ukraine, and eastern Poland Result Soviet major victory Army Group Centre ceases to exist as a fighting force Territorial changes Soviets liberate all of Byelorussian SSR and gain foothold in eastern Poland; placing themselves within striking distance of Berlin.
Belligerents
Germany	Soviet Union Poland
Commanders and leaders
Ernst Busch Walter Model Hans Jordan Georg-Hans Reinhardt Kurt von Tippelskirch Walter Weiss	Georgy Zhukov Aleksandr Vasilevsky Ivan Bagramyan Konstantin Rokossovsky Georgiy Zakharov Ivan Chernyakhovsky
Units involved
Army Group Center Ninth Army Third Panzer Army Fourth Army Second Army	1st Baltic Front 1st Belorussian Front 2nd Belorussian Front 3rd Belorussian Front
Strength
Initial: 486,493 "daily strength" 644,396 "actual strength" 118 tanks 377 assault guns 2,589 guns 602 aircraft In total: 1,036,760 personnel 800 tanks, 530 assault guns 10,090 guns 1,000 – 1,300 aircraft	In total: Glantz and House: 1,670,300 personnel 5,818 tanks 32,968 guns and mortars 7,790 aircraft Frieser: 2,331,700 Soviets (excluding reinforcements) 79,900 Poles 2,715 tanks 1,355 assault guns 24,363 guns 5,327 aircraft
Casualties and losses
c. 300,000–550,000 Glantz and House: 450,000 casualties Frieser: 26,397 killed 109,776 wounded 262,929 missing and captured 399,102 overall Zaloga: 150,000–225,000 killed or missing (excluding 150,000 captured) Isayev: 500,000 casualties Soviet sources: 381,000 killed 158,480 captured	Glantz and House: 180,000 killed or missing 340,000–590,848 wounded and sick 770,888 overall 2,957 tanks and assault guns 2,447 guns 822 aircraft

Soviet major victory

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 fought between 22 June and 19 August 1944 in Soviet Byelorussia in the Eastern Front of World War II. The Soviet Union achieved a major victory by destroying the German Army Group Centre and completely rupturing the German front line.

On 23 June 1944, the Red Army attacked Army Group Centre in Byelorussia, with the objective of encircling and destroying its main component armies. By 28 June, the German Fourth Army had been destroyed, along with most of the Third Panzer and Ninth Armies. The Red Army exploited the collapse of the German front line to encircle German formations in the vicinity of Minsk and destroy them, with Minsk liberated on 4 July. With the end of effective German resistance in Byelorussia, the Soviet offensive continued further to Lithuania, Poland and Romania over the course of July and August.

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