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Title
Delaying Action
Description
After failing to halt the onslaught of Bagramyan's 1st Baltic Front, scattered units of the Gross Deutschland Division were ordered to fall back to the northwest and regroup?. One evening during the course of this retreat some three hundred of …
Subject
Publisher
Date
1944-10-30
Scenario#
D
Scenario Description
After failing to halt the onslaught of Bagramyan's 1st Baltic Front, scattered units of the Gross Deutschland Division were ordered to fall back to the northwest and regroup?. One evening during the course of this retreat some three hundred of its men were surprised by a cautiously advancing Russian infantry regiment. After a short firefight the Russians decided to dig in for the night and initiated their attack at dawn by advancing a column of tanks from a just arriving armored unit. The Germans however, seeing the tanks, immediately withdrew, leaving only a small delaying force to cover their rear.
Location
Western Lithuania, Lithuania
Battle Name
Battle Narrative
The Battle of Memel or the Siege of Memel was a battle which took place on the Eastern Front during World War II. The battle began when the Red Army launched its Memel Offensive Operation in late 1944. The offensive drove remaining German forces in the area that is now Lithuania and Latvia into a small bridgehead in Klaipėda (Memel) and its port, leading to a three-month siege of that position.
Narrative Source
Wikipedia: Battle of Memel
Combatants
German
Russian

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