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The Tallinn offensive (Russian: Таллинская наступательная операция) was a strategic offensive by the Red Army's 2nd Shock and 8th armies and the Baltic Fleet against the German Army Detachment Narwa and Estonian units in mainland Estonia on the Eastern Front of World War II on 17–26 September 1944.
Generalbezirk Estland was the last of the four districts to be formally established on 5 December 1941. [1] It was organized on the territory of German-occupied Estonia, which had until then been under the military administration of the Wehrmacht's Army Group North. The capital of Generalbezirk Estland was Tallinn (Reval). [2]
Kingisepp–Gdov offensive 1 February – 1 March 1944 Staraya Russa-Novorzhev Offensive : 18 February – 1 March 1944. German: Battle of Narva 2 February – 10 August 1944; Battle for Narva Bridgehead 2 February – 26 July 1944. Narva offensive (15–28 February 1944) Rogachev–Zhlobin offensive : 21–26 February 1944; Narva offensive (1 ...
Tallinn Offensive, a 1944 offensive to retake the city from German forces in World War II. Attempt to restore independence, a 1944 failed Estonian attempt to recapture the city from German forces and to hold it against Soviet forces. Battle of Tallinn, the final battle of that offensive.
After months of holding the line, the exhausted men of the III SS Panzer Corps joined the withdrawal; fighting their way back from the Tannenberg Line. On 17 September, the 3rd Baltic Front launched the Tallinn Offensive from the Emajõgi River Front joining Lake Peipus with Lake Võrtsjärv. The operation was aimed at encircling the Army ...
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The medieval Old Town and Town Hall of German-occupied Tallinn, Estonia in ruins after Soviet aerial bombing attacks (1944).. The Baltic offensive, also known as the Baltic strategic offensive, [6] was the military campaign between the northern Fronts of the Red Army and the German Army Group North in the Baltic States during the autumn of 1944.
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