Operation Bagration: Episode 78

The USSR’s answer to D-Day in June 1944 takes the Germans by surprise—and annihilates a whole army group. Map 1: The Vyborg-Petrozavodsk Offensive, the end of the Continuation War against Finland Map 2: The "Byelorussian Balcony” Map 3: Attack on Vitebsk Map 4: Rokossovsky’s attack on Bobruisk Map 5: Attack on Minsk Photos Minsk, July 1944 Destroyed German armour on road to Minsk German POWs in Moscow, July 1944 Soviet and Polish Home Army (AK) soldiers together in Vilnius, July 1944. The AK soldiers were then arrested by the NKVD and sent to Gulags.