Delaying Action

After failing to halt the onslaught of Bagramyan’s 1st Baltic Front, scattered units of Grossdeutshcland Division were ordered to fall back to the northwest and regroup. One evening during the course of this retreat, some 300 of its men were surprised by a cautiously advancing Russian infantry regiment. …

1944-10-26

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After failing to halt the onslaught of Bagramyan’s 1st Baltic Front, scattered units of Grossdeutshcland Division were ordered to fall back to the northwest and regroup. One evening during the course of this retreat, some 300 of its men were surprised by a cautiously advancing Russian infantry regiment. After a short firefight, the Russians proceeded to dig in for the night, and initiated their renewed attack at dawn by advancing a column of tanks from a newly-arrived armored unit. The Germans, however, spotting the tanks, immediately withdrew, leaving only a small delaying force to cover their retreat. Armed with Panzerschrecks, the rearguard set up three ambush points. Straight into them rumbled the tank column, without supporting infantry.

Libau, Lithuania

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. The bridgehead was finally crushed as part of a subsequent Soviet offensive, the East Prussian offensive, in early 1945.

Russian

German

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