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| Battle of the Dnieper | |||||||||
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| Part of the Eastern Front of World War II | |||||||||
 Map of the battle of the Dnieper and linked operations | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Soviet Union |
 Germany Romania | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Georgy Zhukov Aleksandr Vasilevsky Nikolai Vatutin Ivan Konev Rodion Malinovsky Fyodor Tolbukhin Konstantin Rokossovsky |
Erich von Manstein Ewald von Kleist Günther von Kluge | ||||||||
| Units involved | |||||||||
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1st Ukrainian Front 2nd Ukrainian Front 3rd Ukrainian Front 4th Ukrainian Front 1st Belorussian Front |
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| Strength | |||||||||
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26 August: 2,633,000 men (1,450,000 reinforcements)[3] 51,200 guns and mortars[3] 2,400 tanks and assault guns[3] 2,850 combat aircraft[3] |
On 1 November 1943:[7]- 85,564 personnel. | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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Krivosheev: 1,285,977 men[8]
Frieser: 1,687,164 men[9]
- 290,000 killed or missing - 1,000,000+ in total |
Germany Forczyk:[11] - 102,000 killed or missing - 372,000+ in total RomaniaUnknown | ||||||||
The Battle of the Dnieper was a military campaign that took place in 1943 on the Eastern Front of World War II. Being one of the largest operations of the war, it involved almost four million troops at one point and stretched over a 1,400 kilometres (870 mi) front. Over four months, the eastern bank of the Dnieper was recovered from German forces by five of the Red Army's fronts, which conducted several assault river crossings to establish several lodgements on the western bank. Kiev was later liberated in the Battle of Kiev. 2,438 Red Army soldiers were awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for their involvement.[12]
- ^ Edwards, Robert (15 August 2018). The Eastern Front: The Germans and Soviets at War in World War II. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-8117-6784-2.
- ^ Frieser, Karl-Heinz. The Eastern Front 1943-1944: The War in the East and on the Neighbouring Fronts. Oxford University Press, 2017, p. 356.
- ^ a b c d Frieser et al. 2007, p. 343.
- ^ OKH Org.Abt. I Nr. I/5645/43 g.Kdos. Iststärke des Feldheeres Stand 1.11.43. NARA T78, R528, F768.
- ^ Oberkommando des Heeres. Geheime Kommandosache. Panzerlage der Heeresgruppe Süd. Stand am 10 November 1943. Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv (BA-MA) RH 10/52, fol. 80.
- ^ Frieser, Karl-Heinz. Germany and the Second World War: Volume VIII: The Eastern Front 1943-1944: The War in the East and on the Neighbouring Fronts. Oxford University Press, 2017, p. 364.
- ^ OKH Org.Abt. I Nr. I/5645/43 g.Kdos. Iststärke des Feldheeres Stand 1.11.43. NARA T78, R528, F770.
- ^ Кривошеев, Г.Ф. (2001). "Россия и СССР в войнах XX века: Потери вооруженных сил". ОЛМА-ПРЕСС.
- ^ Frieser et al. 2007, p. 379.
- ^ Forczyk, Robert. The Dnepr 1943: Hitler's Eastern Rampart Crumbles. Osprey Publishing 2016, p. 91.
- ^ Forczyk, Robert. The Dnepr 1943: Hitler's Eastern Rampart Crumbles. Osprey Publishing 2016, p. 91.
- ^ Military Review. Command and General Staff School. 1993. p. 2-PA75.