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3rd Belorussian Front

3rd Belorussian Front

WW2 Soviet Red Army formation

The 3rd Belorussian Front (Russian: 3-й Белорусский фронт) was a Front of the Red Army during the Second World War.

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Warriors of the 3rd Belorussian Front salute near the city of Pillau. 70 years of Victory. Stamp of Belarus, 2015

The 3rd Belorussian Front was created on 24 April 1944 from forces previously assigned to the Western Front. Over 381 days in combat, the 3rd Belorussian Front suffered 166,838 killed, 9,292 missing, and 667,297 wounded, sick, and frostbitten personnel[2] while advancing from the region some 50 kilometers southeast of Vitebsk in Russia to Königsberg in East Prussia.

Operations the 3rd Belorussian Front took part in include the Belorussian Offensive Operation, the Baltic Offensive Operation, and the East Prussian Offensive Operation.[3] Although costly, the advance of the 3rd Belorussian Front was in great part victorious, with one of the few defeats occurring during the Gumbinnen Operation in October 1944.

3rd Belorussian Front was formally disbanded on 15 August 1945.[4]

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  1. [1]
    G. F. Krivosheev, Soviet casualties and combat losses in the twentieth century, p. 155, London: Greenhill Books, 1997.
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    G. F. Krivosheev, Soviet casualties and combat losses in the twentieth century, p. 168, London: Greenhill Books, 1997.
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    G. F. Krivosheev, Soviet casualties and combat losses in the twentieth century, pp. 145, 149, and 155, London: Greenhill Books, 1997.
  4. [4]
    David Glantz, Companion to Colossus Reborn, p. 36, Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005
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    Combat composition of the Soviet Army, 1 July 1944
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