Baltic operation

Baltic Operation (1941)
	Part of Operation Barbarossa during the Eastern Front of World War II
	; German troops after crossing the Neman (Memel) into the Lithuanian SSR, 22 June 1941
Date	22 June – 9 July 1941
Location	Baltic states, USSR
Result	German victory Successful German offensive; Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and parts of western Byelorussia placed under a civilian occupation government under Reichskommissariat Ostland;
Belligerents
Germany	Soviet Union
Commanders and leaders
Wilhelm R. von Leeb; Georg von Küchler; Ernst Busch; Erich Hoepner; Alfred Keller	Fyodor Kuznetsov; Pyotr Sobennikov; Vasili Morozov; Nikolai Berzarin; Gustav Jonson
Units involved
Army Group North 18th Army; 16th Army; 4th Panzer Group; Luftflotte 1; 3rd Panzer Group (parts)	Northwestern Front 8th Army; 11th Army; 27th Army;
Strength
655,000; 1,389 tanks; 7,673 artillery pieces; 1,070 aircraft	786,000; 1,393 tanks; 5,573 artillery pieces; 1,210 aircraft
Casualties and losses
4,878 killed; 14,976 wounded	75,202 killed; 13,284 wounded; 2,523 tanks & SPGs destroyed; 990 aircraft destroyed; Total:; 88,486 casualties

The Baltic strategic defensive operation (Russian: Прибалтийская стратегическая оборонительная операция, romanized: Pribaltiyskaya strategicheskaya oboronitel'naya operatsiya) encompassed the operations of the Red Army from 22 June to 9 July 1941 conducted over the territories of the occupied Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia in response to the offensive launched by the Wehrmacht in Operation Barbarossa.