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FW266 Bagration: Soviet
During the calm weeks leading up to Operation Bagration, the Soviets have amassed their armies for the greatest offensive yet undertaken on the Eastern Front. Three years after the German invasion, the Red Army stands as battle-hardened troops, ready to finally push the fascist invaders out of Mother Russia! A screaming barrage of shells and rockets signals the beginning of Operation Bagration, and Soviet Rifle Corps charge forward to capture the fortress towns of Vitebsk, Orsha and Mogilov.
The Russian Front, Summer 1944
The western world held its breath as Allied troops landed in Normandy on D-Day, 6 June 1944. Yet 1500 miles away in Byelorussia (central Russia), a much larger battle was about to commence. Here Army Group Centre had been on the defensive for over two years, since the initial German offensive of Operation Barbarossa had been halted short of Moscow in December 1941. By 1943 the Soviets had thrown them back west of Smolensk in Operation Suvarov, but they still held a strong defensive position. Now led by General Ernst Busch headquartered in Minsk, Army Group Centre consisted of three Armies with 38 divisions and some 500,000 men.
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