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Operation Bagration
Part of Eastern front of World War II

The Eastern Front at the time of Operation Bagration, which is shown in purple. (click to enlarge)
DateJune 22, 1944 - August 29, 1944
Location
Belorussian SSR, USSR
Result Decisive Soviet victory
Belligerents
Axis Soviet Union
Commanders and leaders
Ernst Busch Konstantin Rokossovski
Georgy Zhukov
Aleksandr Vasilevsky
Strength
800,000 men[1]
553 tanks[2]
9,500 guns[3]
839 planes[3]		 1,700,000 men[4]
4070 tanks & SPGs[5]
28,613 artillery[6]
6,334 planes[7]
(excluding the southern wing of 1st Belorussian Front, not committed to the operation)
Casualties and losses
(est.) 200,000 killed
150,000 captured[8]		 180,040 killed and missing
590,848 wounded and sick[9]

The Operation Bagration (Russian: "Операция Багратион", Operatziya Bagration), also known as Belorussian offensive operation, was the name given to a general counteroffensive staged by Soviet Armed Forces to chase Nazi Germany's forces from Belorussian SSR during World War II.

  1. ^ Zaloga, p.24
  2. ^ Zaloga, p.26
  3. ^ a b Zaloga, p.27
  4. ^ Zaloga, p.27-28
  5. ^ Zaloga, p.29
  6. ^ Zaloga, p.32
  7. ^ Zaloga, p.33
  8. ^ Zaloga, p.71
  9. ^ Glantz, table B