Bug–Narew Offensive
1915 German offensive on the Eastern Front of World War I / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Bug-Narew Offensive from July 13 to August 27, 1915 was a major German victory during World War I on the Eastern Front. The Imperial German Army broke through 4 heavily fortified positions, inflicted defeats on superior enemy forces and pushed the Russian Army 300 km to the east, capturing 215,000 prisoners.[5][6] But the German army also suffered relatively heavy casualties, about 30,000 killed and missing.
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Bug-Narew Offensive | |||||||
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Part of the Eastern Front of World War I | |||||||
German summer offensive in the Eastern Front 1915 | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
German Empire | Russian Empire | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Paul von Hindenburg Erich Ludendorff Max Hoffmann Max von Gallwitz Friedrich von Scholtz |
Mikhail Alekseyev Alexander Litvinov Vladimir Gorbatovsky | ||||||
Units involved | |||||||
Armee-Gruppe Gallwitz VIII Army IX Army |
I Army XII Army II Army | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
On 13 July 1915 536,006 men[1] |
On 13 July 1915 763,118 men[2] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Total 104,398 men[3] 24,726 KIA 75,181 WIA 4,491 MIA |
Total 435,656 men:[4] 37,987 KIA 163,606 WIA 233,619 MIA |
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