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  Talk:3rd Belorussian Front - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is not a new usage "Battle for Berlin end of the third Reich" by Earl F Ziemke published in 1968 uses "Belorussian Front".
Front (Soviet Army) Was 2nd Belorussian Front until Mikkalai changed it on 22 Nov 2004
But if you look at 1st Belorussian Front you will see that although the article is a stub it takes up far less space relative to the rest of the article.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:3rd_Byelorussian_Front   (2612 words)

  
 Ivan Chernyakhovsky
General Bagramyan's First Baltic and General Chernyakhovsky's Third Belorussian Front struck to the north and south of Vitebsk and took the city on June 27.
Together with General Rokossovsky's 2nd Belorussian Front, which attacking East Prussia from the south and then head north westwards towards the Baltic coast around Danzig (Gdansk), the 3rd Belorussian Front, commanded by General Chernyakhovsky was ordered to attack from the east towards Königsberg, even though this meant throwing his armies against heavy German defence works.
On 10 February, Rokossovsky reached the coast near Elbing (Elblag) and East Prussia was under siege from the south and east by the 3rd Belorussian Front.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/i/iv/ivan_chernyakhovsky.html   (824 words)

  
 WWII Axis Military History Day-by-Day: July
In the East, troops of the 3rd Belorussian Front (Chernyakovsky) recapture Borisov.
July 3rd, 1940: Heavy units of the British Navy, codenamed Force H (Somerville), launch an attack (Operation Catapult) on the French fleet stationed at Mers-el-Kebir near Oran in Algeria, sinking the battleship Bretagne and heavily damaging the battleship Provence and the battlecruiser Dunkerque.
July 3rd, 1944: In the East, 28 divisions of Heeresgruppe Mitte (Model) are encircled or destroyed by the Soviet 1st and 3rd Belorussian Fronts in the Minsk area.
www.feldgrau.com /july.html   (5480 words)

  
 Eastern Front (WWII) biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The front was opened by Operation Barbarossa on 22 June 1941 4:00 am, when Germany invaded the Soviet Union; and ended on 8 May 1945 when Germany surrendered following the Battle of Berlin.
On the central front, a massive soviet attack, called operation Bagration, starting on June 22 it led eventually to the destruction of the German Army Group Centre the next year.
General Georgy Zhukov concentrated his 1st Belorussian Front (1BF) which had been deployed along the Oder river from Frankfurt in the south to the Baltic, into an area in front of the Seelow Heights.
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 Eastern Front (WWII)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Eastern Front was the theater of combat between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II.
While this redeployment was in progress gaps were left in the lines and and the remnants of the German II Army which had been bottled up in a pocket near Danzig managed to escape across the Oder.
The war on the Eastern Front was unparalleled for its ferocity, intensity, and brutality.
www.mywiseowl.com /articles/Eastern_Front_(WWII)   (5846 words)

  
 Eastern Front   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
On 10 February Rokossovsky reached the coast near Elbing and East Prussia was under siege from the south and east by the 3rd Belorussian Front.
Marshal Rokossovsky's 2nd Belorussian Front aimed for the Baltic Coast east of Kustrin and split the Third Panzer Army and the Second Army.
Konev's 1st Ukrainian Front raced for the Neisse River, and Rokossovsky's 2nd Belorussian Front headed for the northern reaches of the Oder while Zhukov's 1st Beloreussian Front held a line along the Oder opposite Berlin.
www3.sympatico.ca /ergrenier/East.html   (10214 words)

  
 Biographies
At the victory parade of 24 June 1945, the composite regiment of the 2nd Belorussian Front was led by Kuz’ma Petrovich Trubnikov, a veteran of three wars.
From May to October 1942 Trubnikov was deputy to the commander of the 16th Army on the Western Front, and from October 1942 to September 1943 deputy commander of the Don Front forces at Stalingrad.
From September to November 1944—deputy commander of the forces of the 1st Belorussian Front; from November 1944 to July 1945—deputy commander of forces of the 2nd Belorussian Front.
home.comcast.net /~markconrad/Trubnikov.htm   (1930 words)

  
 1945
The 3rd Ukranian Front occupies Sopron in Hungary,a vital road junction between Budapest and Vienna.
The 3rd Ukrainian front occupies Radkesburg and the 2nd Ukrainian front attacks in the direction of Brno in Czechoslovakia.
The 2nd Belorussian front advances in Pomerania seizes Prenzlau and Angermunde.
www.wargamer.com /ww2timeline/1945eastern.asp   (1940 words)

  
 Western Front
The Front was deployed along the border from just north of Grodno to just south of Brest.
Army was formed in August 1939 in the Belorussian Special Military District area and participated in the invasion of northeastern Poland in September 1939, advancing first on Glubokoe, then to Postav’ and Sventsyani, and finally ending near Vilno.
Army was formed in August 1939 from the Bobruysk Army Group in the Belorussian Military District where it remained until invasion.
orbat.com /site/history/historical/russia/wfront.html   (234 words)

  
 14 January 1945   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
: At 0415 the 3rd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment holding the village of Foy was attacked by an estimated 75 German infantry and six tanks.
The 3rd Battalion followed and took up a position to the south near a small lake in the Fazone Woods.
Soon this whole front, from Warsaw south along the Vistula shattered into incohesive fragments in front of the Soviet's eyes.
homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.etherington/1945/01/14.htm   (291 words)

  
 WWW.FORTYFIKACJE.END.PL Gi¿ycki Rejon Umocniony BEFESTIGUNGEN BEI LÖTZEN
The line of the new combat-bunkers was placed in front of old strongpoints from the 1915-17 period.
The southeast sector of the East Prussian front was the responsibility of the German 4th Army, commanded by the old Prussian, General Hossbach.
The derelict fortification GFR was passed on this day by advance parties of the Soviet 31st Army (3rd Belorussian Front), sweeping up into Gizycko and Wegorzewo despite an attempted defence by German police groups, firemen and Volsksturm.
cezary.markiel.w.interia.pl /fpw2004/engru.htm   (2279 words)

  
 60th Anniversary of the Great Victory
Numerous Belorussian cities were freed in summer 1944 during the prominent military operation called “Bagration”.
Baltic fronts in cooperation with partisan groups and brigades defeated the armies of the German group “Center”.
Over 1600 generals, officers and soldiers were awarded the honourable title of the Hero of the USSR for courage and heroism revealed in the battles with the Germans on the Belorussian land.
www.belembassy.org /uk/60th_anniver.htm   (1319 words)

  
 Battle of Halbe - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Southern pincer consisted of armies of the 1st Ukrainian Front (1UF) under the command Ivan Konev had penetrated the furthest and had cut through the area behind the German IX Army's front lines.
They were to anticipate an attack south by the III Panzer Army and to be ready to be the southern arm of a pincer attack which would envelop the 1st Belorussian Front (1BF) which would be destroyed by SS Lieutenant-General Felix Steiner's III SS Corps advancing from North of Berlin.
The front lines were not continuous because the forest meant that visibility was down to metres, so the danger of ambush and sudden assault was a problem for both sides.
www.grohol.com /psypsych/Battle_of_Halbe   (2105 words)

  
 Untitled   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
After loyal and successful service on all sectors of the Eastern Front, the boisterous Marshal of the Soviet Union now commanded 1st Belorussian Front which was poised a mere fifty kilometers from Berlin, along the Oder River.
He removed the previously established boundary of operations in the Berlin area between 1st Belorussian Front and its southern neighbor, 1st Ukrainian Front, commanded by Marshal Konev.
Doing so facilitated the movement of units from quiet sectors of the front to the focal point of a battle and it allowed for the ability to fall back in the face of overwhelming forces without losing the advantages of a prepared defense.
www.suite101.com /print_article.cfm/1206/17829   (985 words)

  
 Historical Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In the Southeast, the Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Front (Tolbukhin) reaches Wiener Neustadt in its advance toward Vienna.
April 3rd, 1945: In the East, while the siege of Breslau in Silesia continues, the Red Army captures Bratislava, capital of Slovakia.
April 6th, 1945: In the East, after eliminating the Heiligenbeil pocket, the Soviet 3rd Belorussian Front (Vassilevsky) reaches the Baltic coast in East Prussia, separating communications between 2.Armee (von Tippelkirch) defending besieged Königsberg and 4.
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 Today In WW II History - Topic Powered by Infopop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
There are renewed attacks by 3rd Belorussian Front against the German forces in East Prussia, especially in the area south of Konigsberg.
The 3rd division, including the cruisers Gorizia, Trento and Bande Nere, along with four destroyers were joined by the battleship Littorio and its escort of four destroyers.
Other US 3rd Army units are completing the mopping up west of the Rhine and preparing to make crossings of their own.
forums.ubi.com /eve/ubb.x/a/tpc/f/23110283/m/1771097952/p/12   (9877 words)

  
 Allied Players
The units of the Ground Forces were allocated into 16 Military Districts on 22 June 1941, with additional forces allocated to the Far East Front in Siberia, facing the Japanese, and held at STAVKA (the Soviet High Command) as reserves of the high command (RGK).
Their armament was also lighter than that required of front line divisions, and their main role remained anti-partisan work and security until the end of the war - and in fact into the 1950s, in many prolonged anti-partisan wars in Ukraine and the Baltics that extended well past VE Day.
Soviet artillery was predictable, and based often around precisely selected targets, and in the early years of the war, these targets were usually immediately to the front of their lines and ignored targets deeper in the German rear.
www.deutschesoldaten.com /history/playerseast2.htm   (8911 words)

  
 FI Article by Shawn Caza   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Venyamin (Benjamin) Faivelovich Danishevskiy, a Jew, was born in Regitsa in Gomel Oblast in the Belorussian SSR in 1913.
In this unit he would have had the chance to play patriotic tunes as the NKVD assisted in the "Liberation of Western Belorussia", as the Soviet take-over of eastern Poland was known.
By April of 1945, Danishevskiy was serving in the NKVD Directorate for Guarding the Rear Area of the 3rd Belorussian Front.
redarmyonline.org /FI_Article_by_Shawn_Caza.html   (771 words)

  
 Collector's Newsletter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
By decision of the Commander in Chief of Armor and Mechanized Forces of the 2nd Belorussian Front, Guards Lieutenant-General Chernyavkii, you are hereby awarded the governmental Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, 2nd Class.
During the fights on the fronts of the Patriotic War, Comrade Kostenko, as a flight commander and assistant squadron of the 127th Guards Bomber Air Regiment, has flown 78 successful combat missions including 12 dive-bombing missions.
For excellent completion of the combat task, comrade Kostenko received special praise from the Military Council of the 3rd Belorussian Front and the Commander of the 1st Air Army.
www.historicalresearch.com /Oct98new.html   (2597 words)

  
 ForValor.com - Colonel Kvasha
He saw his first combat action against the Finns in 1939, and arrived on the Front against the Germans on 25 June 1941, just days after the start of the Second World War on the Eastern Front.
Thrown directly into combat, he was wounded in action first on 27 July 1941, then on 11 September, and again on 11 October 1941.
Belorussian Front for the capture of the city of Koeningsburg.
www.forvalor.com /s55.htm   (1110 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Front Commanders will have complete control of the units within their region, they will also be in command of the cities within their front and responsible for the build queues in them as well as the selling of improvements within the cities of that front which they feel they are in danger of losing.
Whether the front commanders move first before the Marshal brings up reinforcements, air lifts etc or whether they look at the new save and then ask permission from the marshal so they can move the reinforcements/air lift etc in their turn.
Front Commanders would have input to the Marshall who is obligated to keep the Stavka or what ever you want to call it happy.
apolyton.net /forums/printthread.php?threadid=82121   (12609 words)

  
 Today In WW II History - Topic Powered by Infopop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The 3rd Amphibious Force (Admiral Wilkinson) lands elements of the New Zealand 3rd Division (General Barrowclough) on the Green Islands, north of Bougainville.
Konev displayed enormous competence in manipulating large-scale forces in the complex operations that characterized fighting on the Eastern Front; like his fellow generals in the emerging Soviet leadership, he was a master of maskirovka (deception) and combined arms operations.
In 1943 he was in command of the Steppe Front that remained on the defensive during the Battle of Kursk in July, but his troops then led the Soviet advances that reconquered most of the western Ukraine and hustled the Germans back across the Dnieper.
forums.ubi.com /eve/ubb.x/a/tpc/f/23110283/m/1771097952/p/8   (8693 words)

  
 ForValor.com - Colonel Kozirev
They were thrown to the Front in late December 1941, fighting under both the 10th and 50th Armies on the southern flank of the Western Front.
Returning to combat in May 1944, he was sent to the 3rd Belorussian Front, as Deputy Commander of the 517th Flamethrower Tank Regiment, reporting directly to the 11th Guards Army.
On 9 April 1945, they were in the front of the attacking units, leading the way into the city of Koeningsburg.
www.forvalor.com /s34.htm   (1471 words)

  
 Soviet 2nd Rifle Division   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The full honorific title of the division was the 2nd Belorussian Red Banner Rifle Division in the name of M.V. Frunze.
Commenced forming in Arkhangelsk on December 21 1941, this incarnation of the division served to the end of the war and earned the honorific title of 2nd Masurian Rifle Division.
It finished the war as part of the Soviet LXXXI Rifle Corps in the 3rd Belorussian Front.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Soviet-2nd-Rifle-Division.htm   (327 words)

  
 Strona oficjalna Ambasady Republiki Białoruś w Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej
On the 26th of November the Troops of the Belorussian front headed by General Rokossovkii liberated Gomel (the major city of Gomelsk region) and the Belorussian Government re-evacuated there at once.
In the course of the opetation the troops of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd Belorussian and 1st Baltic fronts in cooperation with partisan groups and brigades defeated the armies of the German group “Center”.
The 1st and 2nd Belarusian fronts, 1st Ukranian, Baltic navy, air forces, forces of the Dnepr Navy, and also 1st and 2nd Troops of the Polish Army participated in this operation.
www.belembassy.org /poland/pol/index.php?id=540   (1485 words)

  
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Belorussian Front is doing a terrific job building Sturmikovs, so well in fact, that I would like for the North West Front Commander to be able to borrow one for his eventual attack on Daugvapolis and or be used to surpress German troops outside of Vilnius.
The front commanders and I do have a strategy of a sort, allowing the Belorussian Front to go as far as it can safely go without any reinforcements, an attack from the Northwest front that ends on the Baltic coast, while the Baltic Front holds at leningrad, killing Germans as it can.
If the NW front, or any other front wants Shturmoviks or Su-122 tanks or whatever built for their front, I would hope that they would be built.
apolyton.net /forums/printthread.php?threadid=87102   (14535 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Sergeant Barannik was wounded in this fight and was evacuated to a hospital.
Author's Note: Barannik was previously wounded 14 November, 1943 (3rd Ukrainian Front), 22 November, 1944 (1st Belorussian Front) and 26 February, 1945 (1st Belorussian Front).
Since the first days of the Great Patriotic War, he has operated in small groups in the enemy's rear area, accomplishing reconnaissance and the destruction of enemy personnel and equipment.
www.historicalresearch.com /Jan99new.html   (1766 words)

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