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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.
On the third anniversary in 1947, the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn was created. [10] In 2019, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs rebutted claims by Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova that the Tallinn Offensive was a liberation, saying that it was a false presentation of the "liberation of European peoples from fascist enslavement ...
The Army participated in the Narva Offensive (July 1944) and the Battle of Tannenberg Line, 25 July to 10 August 1944. During September in cooperation with the 2nd Shock Army and the Baltic Fleet, the army conducted the Tallinn Offensive, as a result of which, mainland Estonia and the capital Tallinn were captured.
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.
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.
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]
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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