Operation Bagration
| Belorussian Strategic Offensive Operation | |||||||||
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| Part of the Eastern Front of World War II | |||||||||
 Deployments during Operation Bagration |
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Germany
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 Soviet Union Poland
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Ernst Busch Walter Model Hans Jordan Georg-Hans Reinhardt Kurt von Tippelskirch Walter Weiss
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Georgy Zhukov Aleksandr Vasilevsky Ivan Bagramyan Konstantin Rokossovsky Georgiy Zakharov Ivan Chernyakhovsky
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| Units involved | |||||||||
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 3rd Belorussian Front
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| Strength | |||||||||
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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 |
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| 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 |
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Soviet victory
1st Baltic Front 1st Belorussian Front 2nd Belorussian Front
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.
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