Gumbinnen Operation

Gumbinnen Operation
	Part of Eastern Front of World War II
	; German Panther tank in Goldap, November 1944
Date	16–30 October 1944
Location	East Prussia, Germany
Result	German victory
Belligerents
Germany	Soviet Union
Commanders and leaders
Georg-Hans Reinhardt; Friedrich Hoßbach; Erhard Raus;	Ivan Chernyakhovsky; Kuzma Galitsky; Pyotr Shafranov; Alexander Luchinsky; Ivan Lyudnikov; Vasily Glagolev; Timofey Khryukin;
Units involved
Army Group Centre: 4th Army; 3rd Panzer Army;	3rd Belorussian Front: 11th Guards Army; 5th Army; 28th Army; 39th Army; 31st Army; 1st Air Army;
Strength
318 tanks, assault guns and tank destroyers	377,300 men
Casualties and losses
16,236 men 6,801 killed or missing 9,435 wounded 115 tanks and assault guns destroyed	79,527 men 16,819 killed or missing 62,708 wounded 914 tanks and assault guns destroyed

The Gumbinnen Operation, also known as the Goldap Operation (or Goldap-Gumbinnen Operation, Russian: Гумбиннен-Гольдапская наступательная операция), was a Soviet offensive on the Eastern Front late in 1944, in which forces of the 3rd Belorussian Front attempted to penetrate the borders of East Prussia.

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