Gumbinnen Operation

BelligerentsGermanySoviet UnionCommanders and leaders

• Georg-Hans Reinhardt
• Friedrich Hoßbach
• Erhard Raus

• Ivan Chernyakhovsky
• Kuzma Galitsky
• Pyotr Shafranov
• Alexander Luchinsky
• Ivan Lyudnikov
• Vasily Glagolev
• Timofey Khryukin

Units involved

Army Group Centre:

• 4th Army
• 3rd Panzer Army

3rd Belorussian Front:

• 11th Guards Army
• 5th Army
• 28th Army
• 39th Army
• 31st Army
• 1st Air Army

Strength 318 tanks, assault guns and tank destroyers 377,300 menCasualties and losses

16,236 men

6,801 killed or missing

9,435 wounded

115 tanks and assault guns destroyed

79,527 men

16,819 killed or missing

62,708 wounded

914 tanks and assault guns destroyed

The Gumbinnen Operation, also known as the Goldap Operation (or Goldap-Gumbinnen Operation, Russian: Гумбиннен-Гольдапская наступательная операция), was a Soviet offensive on the Eastern Front late in 1944, in which forces of the 3rd Belorussian Front attempted to penetrate the borders of East Prussia.