Battle of the Dnieper

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
Part of the Eastern Front of World War II

German soldiers fighting across the Dnieper River during battle in1943
Date26 August 1943 – 23 December 1943
(3 months, 3 weeks and 6 days)
Location
Result Soviet victory
Territorial
changes
Soviets reclaim left-bank Ukraine, including the city of Kiev and Donets basin
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

Army Group South

1st Panzer Army
4th Panzer Army
8th Army

Army Group A

6th Army

Army Group Center

2nd Army
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]

417,323 killed or missing
1,269,841 wounded or sick

281,407 men (21 August – 20 December)[3]

47,235 killed
199,998 wounded
34,174 missing

References

  1. Frieser et al. 2007, p. 343.
  2. Frieser et al. 2007, p. 379.
  3. "1943". Archived from the original on 25 May 2013. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
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