Battle of the Dukla Pass

September 8 – October 28, 1944 · Dukla Pass

Result Inconclusive

Soviet and Czechoslovak troops attacked through the Dukla Pass in the Carpathians to support the Slovak National Uprising. They broke through after heavy losses, but too late to save the uprising.

On the map Contemporaries

Nazi Germany

Soviet Union

Germany

Hungary

Soviet Union

Czechoslovakia

Béla Miklós military commander

Gotthard Heinrici military commander

Dezső László military commander

Ivan Konev military commander

Ludvík Svoboda military commander

Andrei Grechko military commander

Kirill Moskalenko military commander

Strength and losses

Strength: 100,000
Casualties: 61,000
Tanks: 350
Guns: 2,000

Tanks: 1,000
Guns: 1,517

Soviet Union Strength 378,000 · Killed 10,060 · Wounded 41,387 · Missing 1,806

Czechoslovakia Strength 16,700 · Killed 935 · Wounded 4,518 · Missing 756

Units

XI Army Corps (Wehrmacht) 357th Infantry Division 75th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

18th Army (Soviet Union) 3rd Rifle Corps 129th Guards Rifle Division 140th Rifle Division 141st Rifle Division 151st Rifle Division 183rd Rifle Division 211th Rifle Division 226th Rifle Division 237th Rifle Division 241st Rifle Division 242nd Rifle Division 2nd Guards Airborne Division 70th Guards Rifle Division