Baltic offensive

The Baltic offensive, also known as the Baltic strategic offensive, 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. The result of the series of battles was the isolation and encirclement of the Army Group North in the Courland Pocket and Soviet re-occupation of the Baltic States. In Soviet propaganda, this offensive was listed as one of Stalin's ten blows.

For the German World War II offensive, see Baltic operation.
Baltic offensive (1944)
(Baltic strategic offensive)
Part of the Eastern Front of World War II

Soviet advances on the Eastern Front, 1 August 1943 – 31 December 1944
Date14 September – 24 November 1944
Location
Baltic States, East Prussia, Poland
Result Soviet victory
Belligerents
 Soviet Union  Germany
Commanders and leaders
Ivan Bagramyan
Leonid Govorov		 Walter Model
Johannes Freißner
Strength
1,546,400 troops
17,500 artillery pieces
3,080 tanks and assault guns
2,640 aircraft		 342,742 troops
unknown artillery pieces
262 tanks; 299 assault guns
321 aircraft
Casualties and losses
61,468 KIA or MIA
218,622 WIA or sick
522 tanks
779 aircraft		 30,834 KIA, WIA and MIA
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