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Title
Counterattack On The vistula
Description
As the Russian 8th Guards Army was expanding its bridgehead on the vistula, they met with stiff German Resistance. Using the Hermann Goering Division, which had just been brought up from Warsaw as a lead, the Germans mounted a number …
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Source
Publisher
Date
1944-08-06
Scenario#
109
Scenario Description
As the Russian 8th Guards Army was expanding its bridgehead on the vistula, they met with stiff German Resistance. Using the Hermann Goering Division, which had just been brought up from Warsaw as a lead, the Germans mounted a number of counterattacks in an effort to eliminate the Russian bridgehead. After six repeated German attacks failed to achieve the needed breakthrough, a seventh assault supported by Tiger tanks forced the situation to its inconclusive end.
Location
Wola Chodkowska, Poland
Battle Name
Battle Narrative
The Lublin–Brest Offensive was a part of the Operation Bagration strategic offensive by the Soviet Red Army to clear the Nazi German forces from the Eastern Poland and Western Belarus. The offensive was executed by the left (southern) wing of theist Belorussian Front and took place during July 1944; it was opposed by the German Army Group North Ukraine and Army Group Centre.
Narrative Source
Wikipedia: Lublin–Brest Offensive
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Combatants
Russian
German
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