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For the Soviet World War II oensive, see Baltic While the Soviet 8th Army retreated along the Jelgava
Oensive.
RigaTartuNarvaPskov direction, the Soviet 11th
Army sought to initially hold the KaunasVilnius
The Baltic Operation, also known as the Defensive sector of the front, but was forced to retreat along
the DaugavpilsPskovNovgorod direction.
These
operation in Lithuania and Latvia (O
withdrawals,
although
costly
in
losses
of
personnel
and
) encompassed the operencirclements experienced by
materiel,
avoided
major
ations of the Red Army from 22 June to 9 July 1941
conducted over the territories of the occupied Lithuania, the Fronts to the south, and succeeded in delaying the
Latvia and Estonia in response to an oensive launched Army Group North suciently to allow preparation for
the defence of Leningrad.
by the German army.
The operation was not a single continuous withdrawal, but was punctuated by short-lived counterattacks,
counterstrokes or counteroensives.[4]
Operational parts
8th Army
10th Rie Corps
Execution
11th Army
16th Rie Corps
5th Rie Division
33rd Rie Division
188th Rie Division
On 22 June, the Soviet 8th Army was positioned in northern Lithuania opposed by the German 18th Army. The
Soviet 11th Army defended the rest of the Lithuanian
border with East Prussia and sought to contain the attacks
of the German 16th Army and the 4th Panzer Group.
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2nd Tank Division
5th Tank Division
84th Motorised Rie Division (Russian:
)
23rd Rie Division
126th Rie Division
128th Rie Division
27th Army
22nd Rie Corps
180th Rie Division
182nd Rie Division
24th Rie Corps
181st Rie Division
183rd Rie Division
5 References
[1] G.F. Krivosheev Colonel-General (Author), John Erickson (Foreword), Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses in
the Twentieth Century, Greenhill Books, London, 1997
ISBN 1-85367-280-7
[2] Also known as the Battle of Kelm in German as in
Glantz, David M., Atlas and operational summary: the
border battles, 22 June-1 July 1941; daily situation maps
prepared by Michael Avanzini
[3] p.69, Bishop
[4] p.70, Glantz
[5] p.36, Wagner
6 Sources
Consequences
Wagner, Ray (ed.), Fetzer, Leland, (trans.), The Soviet Air Force in World War II: the ocial history,
Wren Publishing, Melbourne, 1973 ISBN 0-85885194-6
Bishop, Chris, The Military Atlas of World War II,
Igloo Books, London, 2005 ISBN 1-904687-53-9
Glantz, David, M., Colossus reborn: The Red Army
at war 1941-1943, University Press of Kansas,
Lawrence, 2005 ISBN 0-7006-1353-6
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