Battle of the Dnieper
1943 battle on the Eastern Front of World War II
The Battle of the Dnieper involved about four million troups (Soviet and German). They fought over land and the Dnieper River totalling 870 miles for four months. Soviet army won.
Battle of the Dnieper | |||||||||
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Part of the Eastern Front of World War II | |||||||||
German soldiers fighting across the Dnieper River during battle in1943 | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
Soviet Union Czechoslovakia | Nazi Germany Kingdom of Romania | ||||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Georgy Zhukov Aleksandr Vasilevsky Nikolai Vatutin Ivan Konev Rodion Malinovsky Fyodor Tolbukhin Konstantin Rokossovsky | Erich von Manstein Ewald von Kleist Günther von Kluge | ||||||||
Units involved | |||||||||
1st Ukrainian Front 2nd Ukrainian Front 3rd Ukrainian Front 4th Ukrainian Front 1st Belorussian Front | |||||||||
Strength | |||||||||
26 August: 2,633,000 men[1] 51,200 guns and mortars[1] 2,400 tanks and assault guns[1] 2,850 combat aircraft[1] | 1,250,000 men 12,600 guns and mortars 2,100 tanks and assault guns 2,000 aircraft | ||||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||||
1,687,164 men[2]
| 281,407 men (21 August – 20 December)[3]
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