Bug–Narew Offensive
| Bug-Narew Offensive | |||||||
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| Part of the of Great Retreat (Russia) of 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 | |||||||
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Paul von Hindenburg Erich Ludendorff Max Hoffmann Max von Gallwitz Friedrich von Scholtz |
Mikhail Alekseyev Alexander Litvinov Vladimir Gorbatovsky | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
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Armee-Gruppe Gallwitz VIII Army IX Army |
I Army XII Army II Army | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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On 13 July 1915 536,006 men |
On 13 July 1915 763,118 men | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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Total 104,398 men 24,726 KIA 75,181 WIA 4,491 MIA |
Total 435,656 men: 37,987 KIA 163,606 WIA 233,619 MIA | ||||||
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. But the German army also suffered relatively heavy casualties, about 30,000 killed and missing.