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heavy equipment and attempted to break out, but Soviet air attack and artillery inflicted appalling casualties on the encircled forces. In the meantime, Hitler had relieved Jordan of command due to his confusing instructions to 20th Panzer; Ninth Army was dealt another blow when its main communications headquarters was destroyed by bombing. On the following day, reinforcements arrived behind German lines in the form of
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Batov's 65th Army now fought their way into
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broke through in the north of the sector, trapping the German
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Soviet Blitzkrieg: The Battle for White Russia, 1944
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157:Commanders and leaders
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237:Casualties and losses
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800:1st Mechanised Corps
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560:(Lieutenant-General
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448:Role in the conflict
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562:Edmund Hoffmeister
558:XXXXI Panzer Corps
395:Bobruysk offensive
32:Bobruysk offensive
18:Bobruysk Offensive
1212:Conflicts in 1944
1189:978-1-84595-015-6
1170:978-5-907120-92-1
1143:978-1-85532-478-7
1135:Osprey Publishing
1096:, Stackpole, 2007
1080:978-1-55587-880-1
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989:Dunn, p.181
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728:Second Army
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673:Issa Pliyev
658:Pavel Batov
612:Ernst Busch
587:Gustav Gihr
542:Hans Jordan
525:Deployments
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1201:Categories
1051:References
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868:Commandant
832:Ninth Army
819:XXXV Corps
815:von Lützow
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792:Ninth Army
720:Ninth Army
694:, Marshal
548:XXXV Corps
538:Ninth Army
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99:53.1; 29.2
1070:Dunn, W.
960:Citations
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644:28th Army
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748:3rd Army
724:Berezina
634:3rd Army
618:Red Army
568:LV Corps
482:Bobruysk
459:Planning
439:Bobruysk
423:Berezina
415:3rd Army
407:Red Army
362:Šiauliai
357:Belostok
322:Petrikov
312:Bobruysk
307:Zdudichi
223:Strength
68:Location
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880:citadel
788:Parichi
730:in the
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377:Osovets
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337:Polotsk
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503:Busch
435:Corps
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342:Borki
332:Minsk
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