✦ History

Part of Eastern Front (World War II)

Baltic operation

July 9, 1941

Soviet forces defended Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia against the German invasion in the first weeks of Operation Barbarossa. They were driven out of the Baltic states and pushed back toward Leningrad.

Contemporaries

Axis powers

Allies of World War II

Germany
Soviet Union
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb military commander Ernst Busch military commander Georg von Küchler military commander
Nikolai Berzarin military commander Fyodor Kuznetsov military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
786,000
Casualties
88,486
Killed
75,202
Wounded
13,284
Tanks
1,393
Aircraft
1,210
Aircraft lost
c. 990
Guns
5,573

Units

Army Group North 16th Army (Wehrmacht) 18th Army (Wehrmacht) 4th Panzer Army Panzer Group 3 XXXVIII Army Corps (Wehrmacht) 290th Infantry Division 8th Panzer Division Luftflotte 1
Northwestern Front 11th Army (Soviet Union) 27th Army (Soviet Union) 8th Army (Soviet Union) 12th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union) 16th Rifle Corps 1st Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union) 10th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) 112th Rifle Division 11th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) 125th Rifle Division 126th Rifle Division 128th Rifle Division 180th Rifle Division 202nd Rifle Division 235th Rifle Division 23rd Rifle Division 24th Tank Division (Soviet Union) 28th Tank Division 33rd Rifle Division 46th Rocket Division 5th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)