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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.
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 ...
Battle of Porkuni (Estonian: Porkuni lahing) was the largest engagement between Estonians serving in the Red Army and Estonian pro-independence and Waffen-SS units. It took place on 21 September 1944 [2] between Lake Porkuni and the Sauvälja village about seven kilometres northeast of the town of Tamsalu [3] during the Leningrad Front's Tallinn Offensive Operation (17 September 1944 – 26 ...
Soviet air assaults against civilians in Estonian towns were a part of the offensive, aimed at forcing the Estonians away from supporting the German side. The Soviet Long Range Aviation branch assaulted the Estonian capital of Tallinn on the night of 8–9 March. Approximately 40% of the housing was destroyed in the city; 25,000 people were ...
Bombing of Tallinn in World War II, 1941–1944 German and Soviet aerial bombing raids of the city. Two battles during the Summer War of World War II: Battle of Tallinn, a 1941 German capture of the city from Soviet forces. Soviet evacuation of Tallinn, a 1941 naval evacuation of the city and the Gulf of Finland.
During the summer of 1944 the 159th supported the Narva offensive, the Tartu offensive, and the Tallinn offensive into Estonia. [5] On 11 September 1944 the regiment received a squadron of ten Kittyhawks from the 191st IAP, departing for the Karelian Front , which were operationally subordinated to the 159th.
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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