June 1944

Eastern Front

Barely a week after the Soviet offensive began, Army Group Center has lost 130,000 killed and 60,000 captured and the bulk of its 900 panzers and assault guns destroyed.

On the northern flank the IX Corps of the 3rd Panzer Army loses Usachi to the 1st Baltic Front while the 4th Army retreats across the Drut. Heavy fighting also rages at Rudnya as the Soviet infantry forces reach the Berezina, and fierce battles rage at Studenka.

To the south the German 9th Army tries to break out from Bobruisk but is repulsed. The XXXV Corps practically ceases to exist while the XLI, also encircled following its march east to relieve the XXXV, is under heavy fire. In intense fighting the Germans push 20 miles north of the town but suffer heavy losses. Rokossovsky continues to drive his forward units toward Minsk, Group Pliev taking Slutsk.