What the records say
- When
- 15 Sep 1944
- Kind
- Military operation
- Coordinates
- 60.07° N, 27.00° E
- Description
- 1944 military operation
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Operation Tanne Ost
German operation during World War II
Operation Tanne Ost was a German operation during World War II to capture the island Suursaari in the Gulf of Finland before it could fall into Soviet hands. Suursaari was especially important because it worked as a lock in the Finnish Gulf guarding the minefields keeping the Soviet Baltic Fleet in Kronstadt.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Операция «Tanne Ost»”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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