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    Operation Bagration (category Polotsk)
    weeks, the Germans lost another 100,000 men. The Polotsk offensive had the dual objective of taking Polotsk itself, and of screening the northern flank of...
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    Horst; Förster, Jürgen; Hoffmann, Joachim; Klink, Ernst; Müller, Rolf-Dieter; Ueberschär, Gerd R. (eds.). The Attack on the Soviet Union. Germany and the...
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    Gerhard "Gerd" Barkhorn (20 March 1919 – 11 January 1983) was a German military aviator who was a renowned wing commander in the Luftwaffe during World...
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    Horst with Jürgen Förster, Joachim Hoffman, Ernst Klink, Rolf-Dieter Müller, and Gerd R. Ueberschär, Ewald Osers. Germany and the Second World War Volume...
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    Gerhard Thyben Thyben following the Knight's Cross presentation Nickname(s) Gerd Born (1922-02-24)24 February 1922 Kiel Died 4 September 2006(2006-09-04)...
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