Battle of the Dukla Pass

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The Battle of the Dukla Pass was a major and costly World War II Eastern Front offensive in 1944, in which Soviet and Czechoslovak forces attempted to break through German defenses in the Carpathian Mountains to liberate Slovakia.

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instanceOf World War II battle
battle
alsoKnownAs Carpathian-Dukla Offensive
surface form: Carpathian–Dukla Operation

Battle of the Dukla Pass
surface form: Dukla Offensive
belligerent 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps in the Soviet Union
surface form: 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps in the USSR

German 1st Panzer Army
Red Army
Wehrmacht
campaign Soviet advance into Central Europe
casualties very high
commander Ivan Konev
Ludvík Svoboda
commemoratedIn Czechoslovak and Slovak military traditions
conflict World War II
countryInvolved Czechoslovakia
Nazi Germany
Soviet Union
endDate 1944-10-28
followedBy Soviet offensives into Slovakia and Moravia
front 1st Ukrainian Front
location Carpathian Mountains
Dukla Pass
border of Poland and Slovakia
memorial Dukla Pass War Memorial
surface form: Dukla battlefield memorial complex

military cemetery at Dukla
notableFor intense infantry and artillery combat
symbolic importance in Czechoslovak military history
objective break through German defenses in the Carpathians
liberate Slovakia
support the Slovak National Uprising
operationName Carpathian-Dukla Offensive
surface form: Carpathian–Dukla Operation
partOf Eastern Front of World War II
precededBy Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive
region Prešov Region
Subcarpathian Voivodeship
result Soviet and Czechoslovak tactical victory
heavy casualties on both sides
startDate 1944-09-08
strategicSignificance attempted link with Slovak insurgents
opened a route into northeastern Slovakia
terrain heavily fortified
mountainous
theatre Eastern Front
year 1944

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Dukla Pass knownFor Battle of the Dukla Pass
Battle of the Dukla Pass alsoKnownAs Battle of the Dukla Pass
this entity surface form: Dukla Offensive
Dukla Pass War Memorial dedicatedToEvent Battle of the Dukla Pass
Carpathian-Dukla Offensive alsoKnownAs Battle of the Dukla Pass
this entity surface form: Dukla Pass Offensive
Dukla (army sports association) nameOrigin Battle of the Dukla Pass