The Red Army has the momentum: Episode 67

In January and February 1944, Stalin's "broad front" strategy takes hold and the Red Army gains the momentum in the war on the Eastern Front.

Map 1: The Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket

  

Map 2: The Advance on Narva

 

Map 3: The Battle of Narva and Lake Peipus

What looks like "Hapba" is Cyrillic script for "Narva." The inset shows the southern end of Lake Peipus and the Red Army's temporary  bridgehead on the west side.

Map 4: The Panther Line 

   

Map 5: The breakout to Lysyanka

  

Map 6a: The Eastern Front 15 January 1944  

Map 6b: The Eastern Front 15 February 1944 

 

 

Image 1: Ivan S. Konev, commander of the 2nd Ukrainian Front

  

Image 2: Nikolai Vatutin, commander of the 1st Ukrainian Front

 

 

Sources

Antony Beevor, The Second World War. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012. 

Evan Mawdsley, Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941–1945. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

Orest Subtelny, Ukraine: A History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988.

Anthony Tucker-Jones, Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin's War 1941–1945. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2017.

Wikipedia, various pages.