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374:Air war 1941
349:
312:
288:1st Smolensk
255:
244:Arctic Ocean
153:Soviet Union
127:Belligerents
34:Part of the
1584:Glantz, D.
1495:Toomas Hiio
1389:Bagramyan's
1301:Kampfgruppe
1279:Erhard Raus
1112:Deployments
1066:The Kremlin
844:Oranienbaum
798:the Baltics
512:Gorky Blitz
507:3rd Kharkov
423:2nd Kharkov
325:1st Kharkov
320:Sea of Azov
102: /
38:during the
1630:Categories
1505:. Tallinn.
1463:Laar, Mart
1320:backed by
1308:, and the
1074:the Reich.
910:Krasny Bor
904:Polar Star
819:Summer War
636:2nd Baltic
631:Dukla Pass
618:Doppelkopf
590:2nd Crimea
534:2nd Donbas
524:1st Donbas
501:Polar Star
451:Stalingrad
335:Sevastopol
330:1st Crimea
273:1st Baltic
257:Barbarossa
234:Baltic Sea
1511:cite book
1434:Aftermath
1420:18th Army
1366:4th Shock
1358:16th Army
1329:43rd Army
1322:Omakaitse
1306:VÔrtsjÀrv
1287:Omakaitse
1277:(General
1258:(General
1248:(General
1238:(General
1221:(General
1212:22nd Army
1204:(General
1194:(General
1131:does not
1104:designed
1094:Omakaitse
1090:VÔrtsjÀrv
1078:18th Army
884:Sinyavino
837:Leningrad
794:Leningrad
661:Gumbinnen
606:Bagration
445:Sinyavino
429:Case Blue
314:Leningrad
239:Black Sea
1602:(2007).
1497:(2006).
1465:(2005).
1183:Red Army
984:Courland
949:Ć iauliai
874:Demyansk
706:Solstice
666:Budapest
656:Courland
646:Debrecen
641:Belgrade
563:2nd Kiev
435:Caucasus
408:Demyansk
369:Chechnya
303:1st Kiev
69:Location
1428:Lielupe
1376:by the
1333:X Corps
1152:removed
1137:sources
1034:Prelude
1022:during
1018:on the
1012:
1001:Russian
969:Tallinn
944:Vilnius
852:Tikhvin
800:1941â44
700:Breslau
695:Silesia
600:Karelia
552:Dnieper
418:Bamberg
359:Finland
308:Tallinn
140:Germany
90:24°19âČE
87:56°58âČN
78:Estonia
1614:
1592:
1418:, the
1353:Stavka
1050:Baltic
954:Kaunas
864:Lyuban
744:Prague
738:Berlin
727:Vienna
544:Lenino
386:Lyuban
351:Moscow
340:Rostov
298:Odessa
150:
115:Result
74:Latvia
1374:Memel
1314:Gauja
1086:Valga
979:Memel
959:Tartu
934:Narva
897:Iskra
879:Kholm
585:Narva
558:Nevel
518:Kursk
484:Iskra
413:Kholm
397:Rzhev
364:Kerch
345:Gorky
278:Brody
263:Brest
1612:ISBN
1590:ISBN
1517:link
1402:and
1370:51st
1368:and
1362:away
1312:and
1135:any
1133:cite
1042:and
1028:Riga
1010:lit.
995:The
964:Riga
923:1944
890:1943
858:1942
809:1941
796:and
672:1945
569:1944
477:1943
463:Mars
380:1942
293:Uman
250:1941
61:Date
1343:of
1146:by
917:Mga
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