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The Soviet Tallinn offensive was designed as a part of the Baltic offensive to eliminate the positions of Army Group North along the Baltic. [ 2 ] Stavka began an intricate supply and transport operation, to move the 2nd Shock Army from the Narva front to the Emajõgi river on September 5, 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]
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.
Battle of Tallinn may refer to: Battle at the Iron Gate, a possible 1032 Novgorod failed naval attack near the Estonian stronghold. Battle of Lindanise, a 1219 Danish conquest of the Estonian stronghold in the Livonian Crusade. Siege of Tallinn, a 1221 failed Estonian siege of the Danish stronghold in the Livonian Crusade.
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.
Kirovograd offensive 5–16 January 1944 Korsun–Shevchenkovsky offensive 24 January – 17 February 1944 German Korsun–Cherkassy Pocket Rovno–Lutsk offensive 1 Stage 27 January – 11 February 1944 Nikopol–Krivoi Rog offensive 2 Stage 30 January – 29 February 1944 Proskurov–Chernovtsy offensive 4 March – 17 April 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 ...
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.