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Howitzer Artillery Regiments, entered the gap and rapidly drove to the west and liberated Nevel from the march. General Galitskiy reported, "In the city of Nevel, the enemy garrison was destroyed, and many warehouses, vehicles, and other equipment were seized. There are prisoners. The quantity of trophies is being calculated." At the same time the 4th Shock Army, deployed on 3rd Shock's left (south) flank, also launched an attack towards Gorodok. General Shvetsov had formed a shock group from two of his rifle corps, each advancing abreast in three echelons. 2nd Guards Rifle Corps led with its 360th Rifle Division, followed by 117th and 16th Lithuanian Divisions and two tank brigades. 83rd Rifle Corps had its 47th Rifle Division up, supported by 234th, 235th and 381st Rifle Divisions and another two tank brigades. Although there were no further panicked withdrawals by II Luftwaffe Corps the attack gained about 20km but ultimately faltered just short of the Nevel-Gorodok-Vitebsk railroad and highway.
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Division to counterattack the penetration from the march. Army Group North was scheduled to attack from its side on the morning of November 9 but Küchler protested that all his units were tied down. Army Group Center accused Army Group North of refusing to attack simply "because it did not want to." Hitler refused to "accept any further excuses" and ordered Army Group North "as a matter of honor" to begin its counterattack no later than the next day. Küchler assembled a scratch force of seven battalions which attacked as ordered on November 10, ran into heavy artillery fire and then were thrown back to their line of departure by a counterattack.
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Novosokolniki-Pustoshka rail line. At around the same time the 6th Guards Army went over to the attack on the east side of the Nevel-Novosokolniki salient in an effort to link up with 3rd Shock and jointly isolate and destroy the XXXXIII Army Corps. This made almost no progress and 6th Guards went back to the defensive on
November 15. About a week later 3rd Shock made several futile efforts to break through the German defenses east of Pustoshka but made only minimal gains and on November 21 General Popov ordered his entire Front over to the defensive.
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expanded but the mouth of the penetration remained narrow as before, a huge sack formed in the enemy defense. The 4th Shock Army's formations... menacingly hung over the
Fascists' Gorodok grouping. In turn, while holding firm to the so-called Ezerishche salient, this grouping, whose apex dug its heels in at the mouth of the penetration, also represented a great danger for us.
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close the gap. A day later the northern division was encircled and
Reinhardt had no choice but to order a breakout which occurred on December 16 at the cost of 2,000 of its 7,000 troops and all of its artillery, heavy weapons and vehicles. On the same day Hitler conceded the impossibility of sealing off the salient, bringing this phase of the overall battle to a close.
1130:. Given the nature of the terrain, with many forests, lakes and swamps and few roads even by Russian standards, plus the manpower demands from other sectors, this was impractical. Instead, General Yeryomenko planned the attack on Nevel as a supporting operation for his Front's wider offensive towards Vitebsk:
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2nd Baltic planned a new offensive to clear the salient in early
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Gorodok while several combat groups covered the approaches to Polotsk. German resistance and deteriorating weather forced a temporary halt to the Soviet advance, but 20th Panzer was also forced to abandon its drive towards Nevel. While the immediate threat had been averted, on
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October 6 with a reconnaissance-in-force, followed by a 90-minute artillery preparation at 0840 hours and airstrikes by 21st Assault Aviation Regiment. 3rd Shock went over to the attack at 1000 hours on the Zhigary-Shliapy sector, precisely at the boundary between
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and also northward and northwestward to seize the
Novosokolniki center of resistance... Furthermore, the attack on Nevel diverted considerable German forces, and its success would disrupt the entire enemy communications system... This would prevent the enemy from maneuvering from the north to support
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The racket, which you kicked up about the attack of large enemy forces, supposedly up to two tank divisions from
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which read, "The enemy are advancing and attacking 417th Rifle Regiment with up to 50 tanks and infantry." During the day the German force would advance as much as 8km between Lakes Ezerishche and Ordovo and capturing the villages of Blinki, Borok and several others. Beloborodov was forced to change
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In an early morning fog on November 2 the 3rd and 4th Shock Armies penetrated the defenses of the left flank of 3rd Panzer Army southwest of Nevel. After the breakthrough, which opened a 16km-wide gap, 3rd Shock turned to the north behind the flank of 16th Army while 4th Shock moved southwest behind
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as of October 20) was shifted to bisect the salient from east to west, and 3rd Shock was reassigned to the latter Front. On October 19 Army Group Center proposed a joint effort to close the gap but Küchler declared he had no troops to spare due to the threat to Novosokolniki. Army Group Center then
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on the Velikiye Luki-Riga railroad line. By November 7 the 3rd Shock's lead elements had penetrated more than 30km deep on a 40 km front. By mid-month the 119th Guards Division, flanked by the 146th Division and supported the 118th Tanks, had taken Podbereze and directly threatened to cut the
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and Nevel through the spring and summer. During this time the railway from Vitebsk through Nevel to Pskov remained in German hands linking the two army groups, although it was under Soviet artillery fire near Novosokolniki. Breaking this line was an obvious objective. Although Army Group North had
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In addition to the flight of 2nd Luftwaffe Field Division the right flank of 263rd Infantry Division was badly smashed. While the attack of the 357th Rifle Division was contained the 78th Tank Brigade, carrying troops of 21st Guards Rifle Division with more mounted on trucks, along with the 163rd
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The offensive began during the first few days of November. Cooperating closely, the 3rd... and 4th Shock Armies delivered a strong attack south of Nevel, penetrated through the defile between the lakes and advanced rapidly to the northwest, west, and southwest. Since the depth of the penetration
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the two German army groups. 28th Rifle Division spearheaded the assault in the first echelon followed closely by an exploitation echelon consisting of the 21st Guards Rifle Division and the 78th Tank Brigade with 54 tanks. The assaulting force struck and demolished the
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ordered two of them transferred to Army Group South. On September 19 Army Group North took over XXXXIII Army Corps from Army Group Center, giving it an additional three divisions, 77km of front, and the responsibility of defending Nevel and Novosokolniki.
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reined in on the offensive. During the several days' pause that followed, Army Groups North and Center threw a line around the western limits of the breakthrough, and each moved in a corps headquarters to command the battle area.
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on the first day and subsequent attacks over the next four days created a salient about 35km wide and 25 km deep at the junction between German Army Groups North and Center. Through the following weeks the forces of
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Strategic operations of the Red Army in World War II
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2122:Glantz, David M. & House, Jonathan (1995),
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2182:, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS,
2168:, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS,
2164:Glantz, David M. & Glantz, Mary (2016),
2140:, Weidenfeld and Nicolson Ltd., London, UK,
2126:, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS,
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216:7,000 killed and wounded
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1564:Konstantin Kolganov
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987:Relief of Leningrad
882:Strategic defensive
548:Ostrogozhsk–Rossosh
449:Barvenkovo–Lozovaya
2138:The Road to Berlin
1732:In Popular culture
1637:XXXXIII Army Corps
1327:Drive on Pustoshka
1167:75mm mountain guns
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2202:978-1-85532-100-7
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2006:, pp. 132-34, 138
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1672:Günther von Kluge
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346:1st Smolensk
313:
302:Arctic Ocean
232:
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115:Soviet Union
86:Belligerents
35:World War II
29:Part of the
2254: /
1980:, p. 203-04
1917:, pp. 54-55
1839:, pp. 39-41
1813:, p. 36, 39
1684:(Col. Gen.
1676:Ernst Busch
1627:Ernst Busch
1562:(Maj. Gen.
1530:(Maj. Gen.
1503:(Maj. Gen.
1493:(Maj. Gen.
1432:(Army Gen.
1349:M. M. Popov
1341:326th Rifle
1255:Schweinerei
902:Oranienbaum
856:the Baltics
570:Gorky Blitz
565:3rd Kharkov
481:2nd Kharkov
383:1st Kharkov
378:Sea of Azov
134:Ernst Busch
2269:Categories
1740:References
1442:(Lt. Gen.
1272:and three
1270:Panzer IVs
1232:2nd Baltic
1096:Background
968:Krasny Bor
962:Polar Star
877:Summer War
694:2nd Baltic
689:Dukla Pass
676:Doppelkopf
648:2nd Crimea
592:2nd Donbas
582:1st Donbas
559:Polar Star
509:Stalingrad
393:Sevastopol
388:1st Crimea
331:1st Baltic
315:Barbarossa
292:Baltic Sea
1942:, pp. 201
1904:, pp. 201
1745:Citations
1623:16th Army
1407:Aftermath
1372:Pustoshka
1368:18th Army
1274:Panzer Vs
1171:Stug IIIs
1122:Objective
1081:16th Army
942:Sinyavino
895:Leningrad
852:Leningrad
719:Gumbinnen
664:Bagration
503:Sinyavino
487:Case Blue
372:Leningrad
297:Black Sea
2105:Glantz,
2096:, p. 245
2084:, p. 206
2080:Ziemke,
2067:Glantz,
2054:Glantz,
2041:Glantz,
2032:, p. 203
2028:Ziemke,
2019:, p. 146
2015:Glantz,
2002:Glantz,
1989:Glantz,
1976:Ziemke,
1955:, p. 203
1951:Ziemke,
1938:Ziemke,
1929:, p. 273
1913:Glantz,
1900:Ziemke,
1887:Ziemke,
1874:Ziemke,
1861:Glantz,
1835:Glantz,
1826:, p. 200
1809:Glantz,
1796:Ziemke,
1770:Glantz,
1389:STAVKA's
1355:and the
1343:and the
1061:Red Army
1042:Courland
1007:Šiauliai
932:Demyansk
764:Solstice
724:Budapest
714:Courland
704:Debrecen
699:Belgrade
621:2nd Kiev
493:Caucasus
466:Demyansk
427:Chechnya
361:1st Kiev
198:Strength
64:Location
2242:29°55′E
2239:56°02′N
2109:, p. 26
1865:, p. 41
1291:Polotsk
1177:during
1140:Gorodok
1090:Vitebsk
1063:in the
1027:Tallinn
1002:Vilnius
910:Tikhvin
858:1941–44
758:Breslau
753:Silesia
658:Karelia
610:Dnieper
476:Bamberg
417:Finland
366:Tallinn
206:198,000
203:unknown
101:Germany
2200:
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2144:
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1604:German
1421:Soviet
1311:below.
1304:STAVKA
1148:Battle
1012:Kaunas
922:Lyuban
802:Prague
796:Berlin
785:Vienna
602:Lenino
444:Lyuban
409:Moscow
398:Rostov
356:Odessa
112:
98:
74:Result
2223:[
1357:219th
1337:146th
1333:115th
1216:165th
1175:Belyi
1136:front
1072:Nevel
1037:Memel
1017:Tartu
992:Narva
955:Iskra
937:Kholm
643:Narva
616:Nevel
576:Kursk
542:Iskra
471:Kholm
455:Rzhev
422:Kerch
403:Gorky
336:Brody
321:Brest
233:Total
221:Total
2198:ISBN
2184:ISBN
2170:ISBN
2156:ISBN
2142:ISBN
2128:ISBN
1395:and
1359:and
1339:and
1264:and
1218:and
1083:and
1055:The
1022:Riga
981:1944
948:1943
916:1942
867:1941
854:and
730:1945
627:1944
535:1943
521:Mars
438:1942
351:Uman
308:1941
56:Date
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975:Mga
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