![]() ![]() By 28 June, the German 4th Army had been destroyed, along with most of the Third Panzer and Ninth Armies. On 22 June 1944, the Red Army attacked Army Group Centre in Byelorussia, with the objective of encircling and destroying its main component armies. It was the biggest defeat in German military history, with around 450,000 German casualties, while 300,000 other German soldiers were cut off in the Courland Pocket. ![]() The Soviet Union destroyed 28 of 34 divisions of Army Group Centre and completely shattered the German front line. ![]() Operation Bagration ( Russian: Операция Багратио́н, Operatsiya Bagration) was the codename for the 1944 Soviet Byelorussian 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, just over two weeks after the start of Operation Overlord in the west, causing Nazi Germany to have to fight on two major fronts at the same time. ~45,000 guns, rocket launchers and mortars 486,493 combat personnel, ~849,000 total ģ,841 tanks and 1,977 assault guns ģ2,718 guns, rocket launchers and mortars ![]()
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