Baltic offensive

Baltic offensive (1944) (Baltic strategic offensive)
Part of the Eastern Front of World War II
Soviet advances on the Eastern Front, 1 August 1943 – 31 December 1944
Date 14 September – 24 November 1944 Location Baltic States, East Prussia, Poland Result Soviet victory Army Group North trapped in Courland
Belligerents
Soviet Union	Germany
Commanders and leaders
Ivan Bagramyan Leonid Govorov	Walter Model Johannes Freißner
Strength
1,546,400 troops[1] 17,500 artillery pieces 3,080 tanks and assault guns 2,640 aircraft[2]	342,742 troops [3] unknown artillery pieces 262 tanks; 299 assault guns 321 aircraft [4]
Casualties and losses
61,468 KIA or MIA 218,622 WIA or sick 522 tanks 779 aircraft[1]	30,834 KIA, WIA and MIA[5]

The Baltic offensive, also known as the Baltic strategic offensive,^[6] was the military campaign between the northern Fronts of the Red Army and the German Army Group North in the Baltic States during the autumn of 1944. The result of the series of battles was the isolation and encirclement of the Army Group North in the Courland Pocket and Soviet re-occupation of the Baltic States.^[7] In Soviet propaganda, this offensive was listed as one of Stalin's ten blows.