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Title
Lend-Lease Attack
Description
The German High Command realized that Operation Bagration was indeed a large scale Soviet offensive. The first German reinforcements to arrive in Minsk from Ukraine were the 5th Panzer Division. Their first contact with the advancing Russian units took place near Krupki where lend-lease Sherman tanks fought a sharp engagement …
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Date
1944-06-28
Scenario#
J098
Scenario Description
The German High Command realized that Operation Bagration was indeed a large scale Soviet offensive. The first German reinforcements to arrive in Minsk from Ukraine were the 5th Panzer Division. Their first contact with the advancing Russian units took place near Krupki where lend-lease Sherman tanks fought a sharp engagement with the defending Tigers of schwerePanzerAbteilung 505 in the early evening of June 28th.
Location
Krupki, Russia
Battle Name
Battle Narrative
Operation Bagration was the codename for the 1944 Soviet Belorussian Strategic Offensive Operation, a military campaign fought between 23 June and 19 August 1944 in Soviet Byelorussia in the Eastern Front of World War II. The Soviet Union destroyed 28 of 34 divisions of Army Group Centre and completely shattered the German front line. It was the biggest defeat in German military history and the fifth deadliest campaign on in Europe, killing around 450,000 soldiers.
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Combatants
Russian
German
Additional Information
Scenario Type = Standard
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