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This is a list of military operations in Europe on the Eastern Front of World War II. These were operations by Germany and its allies on one side and the Soviet Union and its allies on the other and were a consequence of the German invasion in 1941. The geographic boundaries have blurred edges.
World War II aerial operations and battles of the Eastern Front (2 C, 33 P) Pages in category "Battles and operations of the Eastern Front of World War II" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
Eastern Front; Part of the European theatre of World War II: Clockwise from top left: Soviet T-34 tanks storming Poznań, 1945; German Tiger I tanks during the Battle of Kursk, 1943; German Stuka dive bombers on the Eastern Front, 1943; German Einsatzgruppen death squad murdering Jews in Ukraine, 1942; Wilhelm Keitel signing the German Instrument of Surrender, 1945; Soviet troops at the Battle ...
Eastern Front: 1939-09-01 Poland Danzig: Axis Danzig Bay: Invasion of Poland: Eastern Front: 1939-09-01 Poland Germany: Axis Krojanty: Invasion of Poland: Eastern Front: 1939-09-01 Poland Germany: Axis Lasy Królewskie: Invasion of Poland: Eastern Front: 1939-09-01 Poland Germany: Allies Mokra: Invasion of Poland: Eastern Front: 1939-09-01 ...
The Eastern Front was a theatre of World War II which primarily involved combat between the nations and allies of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.Combat in the Eastern Front began with the two powers remaining peaceful towards each other, with the annexation of countries such as Albania and portions of Poland by Germany and its allies, and the annexation of Finland and the rest of Poland by ...
One of largest urban battles fought by the U.S. Army during the war; Resulted in American occupation of Aachen and destruction of much of the city; First German city captured by the Western Allies; Delayed Allied advance into the Ruhr Basin; Battle of the Bulge: December 16, 1944 January 25, 1945 The Ardennes, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany
By the time the Germans initiated the offensive, their force amounted to around 777,000 men, 2,451 tanks and assault guns (70 percent of the German armour on the Eastern Front) and 7,417 guns and mortars. [111] [130] [o] The Battle of Kursk would engulf more than 70% of Germany's military force on the Eastern Front. [44]
On 16 April, the Red Army jumped off from lines on the Oder and Neisse Rivers, the opening phase of the Battle of Berlin, which proved to be the culminating offensive of the war on the Eastern Front. The relatively rapid progress of this new offensive toward the German heartland seems to illustrate the cumulative extent of the erosion of the ...