What the records say
- When
- 23 Jun 1941 – 27 Jun 1941
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 55.35° N, 23.28° E
- Description
- 1941 battle on the Eastern Front of World War II
- War
- World War II
Battle of Raseiniai
Battle on the Eastern Front of World War II
The Battle of Raseiniai was a large tank battle that took place in the early stages of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union. The battle was fought between the elements of the German 4th Panzer Group and the Soviet 3rd Mechanized Corps with the 12th Mechanised Corps, in Lithuania, 75 km (47 mi) north-west of Kaunas.
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- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “bataille de Rosienie (ou Raseiniai) sur la Dubysa lors de l'opération Barbarossa”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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