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  conflict Belorussian Offensive
  caption The Eastern Front at the time of Operation Bagration, which is shown in purple (click to enlarge)
  partof the Eastern Front of World War II
  place Belorussian SSR , USSR
  date June 22 , 1944 - August 19 , 1944
  result Decisive Soviet victory
  combatant1 <center><br> Germany
  combatant2 <center><br> Soviet Union
  commander1 Ernst Busch (to 28 June ), Walter Model ( Army Group Centre )<br>
  commander2 Konstantin Rokossovsky ( 3rd Belorussian Front )<br> Hovhannes Bagramyan ( 1st Baltic Front )<br> Ivan Chernyakhovsky ( 1st Belorussian Front )<br> Gyorgy Zakharov ( 2nd Belorussian Front )
  strength1 800,000
  strength2 1,700,000
  casualties1 ''Soviet est'': 400,000 killed, 158,000 POWs, 590,000 wounded </br>''German est'': 260,000 killed, 250,000 wounded 116,000 POWs
  casualties2 60,000 KIA/MIA, 110,000 WIA/sick