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3rd Belorussian Front

WW2 Soviet Red Army formation

WW2 Soviet Red Army formation

FieldValue
unit_name3rd Belorussian Front
native_name3-й Белорусский фронт
imageTerzo Bielorusso.jpg
captionStandard of the 3rd Belorussian Front
dates24 April 1944 – 15 August 1945
countrySoviet Union
branch[[File:Red Army flag.svg23px]] Red Army
typeFront
size708,600 (January 1945)
battlesWorld War II
disbanded
  • Eastern Front
    • Operation Bagration
    • Baltic Offensive
    • East Prussian Offensive

The 3rd Belorussian Front () was a Front of the Red Army during the Second World War.

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 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. 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.

ArmyNumber and type
of divisionsIndependent brigades
[5th](5th-army-soviet-union)9 rifle divisions
1 artillery division
1 anti-aircraft division1 gun-artillery brigade
1 antitank brigade
2 tank brigades
1 assault sapper brigade
1 sapper brigade
[11th Guards](11th-guards-army)9 rifle divisions
2 anti-aircraft divisions
1 tank corps1 gun-artillery brigade
1 "BM" howitzer artillery brigade
1 antitank brigade
2 rocket launcher brigades
1 tank brigade
1 assault sapper brigade
1 sapper brigade
[31st](31st-army-soviet-union)8 rifle divisions
1 anti-aircraft division1 gun-artillery brigade
1 antitank brigade
1 tank brigade
1 sapper brigade
[5th Guards Tank](5th-guards-tank-army)2 tank corps
1 anti-aircraft division-
[1st Air](1st-air-army)6 bomber divisions
8 fighter divisions
4 close support divisions
1 night bomber division-
Front HQ3 cavalry divisions
3 artillery divisions
1 anti-aircraft division
1 mechanized corps1 "BM" howitzer artillery brigade
1 rocket launcher brigade
1 assault sapper brigade
1 motorized sapper brigade
1 engineer bridging brigade

Commanders

  • Colonel General Ivan Chernyakhovsky [promoted to full General on 26 June 1944] (April 1944 – February 1945)
  • Marshal of the Soviet Union Aleksandr Vasilevsky (February–April 1945)
  • General Hovhannes Bagramyan (April–August 1945)

Citations and sources

de:Westfront (Rote Armee)#3. Weißrussische Front

References

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