Crossing the Gniloi Tikitsch

By 28 January, the First and Second Ukrainian Fronts had succeeded in surrounding XI and XLVII Korps through a series of bold maneuvers. The encircled force, centered at Korsun, was directed to break out toward Field Marshal Manstein’s III Panzerkorps which was slowly working its way toward the pocket …

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By 28 January, the First and Second Ukrainian Fronts had succeeded in surrounding XI and XLVII Korps through a series of bold maneuvers. The encircled force, centered at Korsun, was directed to break out toward Field Marshal Manstein’s III Panzerkorps which was slowly working its way toward the pocket from the southeast. After two weeks, growing increasingly low on fuel and ammunition, it became apparent that the surrounded army would not be able to effect a breakout – III Panzer’s relief effort would have to break through to them. On 14 February, after three days of hard fighting, the 1st Panzer Division was within half a mile of capturing the bridge that crossed the Gniloi Tikitsch thirty miles southwest of Korsun.

Lissjanka, Ukraine

The Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive, also known in Soviet historical sources as the liberation of right-bank Ukraine, was a strategic offensive executed by the Soviet 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Ukrainian Fronts, along with the 2nd Belorussian Front, against the German Army Group South, Army Group A and elements of Army Group Center, and fought from late December 1943 to early May 1944. The battles on the right-bank Ukraine and in the Crimea were the most important event of the 1944 winter-spring campaign on the Eastern Front. Consisting of a whole series of closely linked operations, the goal of this offensive was to split Wehrmacht's Army Group South and to clear the German-Romanian-Hungarian forces from most of the Ukrainian and Moldovian territories, which were occupied by Axis forces. It was one of the biggest offensives of World War II, stretching over a 1,200 km (745 mi) front, to a 450 km depth (280 mi) and involving almost 3,500,000 troops from both sides.

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