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The Petsamo-Kirkenes Operation - Soviet Breakthrough and Pursuit in the Arctic, October 1944 (Paperback)
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The Petsamo-Kirkenes Operation - Soviet Breakthrough and Pursuit in the Arctic, October 1944 (Paperback)
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Originally published in 1989, this a volume from the Combat Studies
Institute "Leavenworth Papers" series. In the fall of 1944, some
56,000 German troops of the XIX Mountain Corps were occupying a
strongpoint line just 70 kilometers northwest of Murmansk, about
200 miles north of the Arctic Circle. To clear these enemy forces
from Soviet territory, STA VKA ordered General K. A. Meretskov's
Karelian Front to plan and conduct an offensive, which was to be
supported by Admiral A. G. Golovko's Northern Fleet. This
Leavenworth Paper explains the planning and conduct of this
offensive, known in Soviet military historiography as the
Petsamo-Kirkenes Operation. The Soviet force of approximately
96,000 men was organized into a main attack force of two rifle
corps, a corps- size economy-of-force formation, and two
envelopment forces, one consisting of two naval infantry brigades
and the other of two light rifle corps of two brigades each. The
Soviets employed over 2,100 tubes of artillery and mortars, used
110 tanks and self-propelled guns, and enjoyed overwhelming air
superiority. Engineer special-purpose troops infiltrated up to
fifty kilometers behind German forward positions to conduct
reconnaissance before the battle. On 7 October 1944, the Soviets
began the offensive with a 97,000-round artillery preparation,
followed by an infantry attack.
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