Role in the Liberation of the Czech Lands

Red Army

1,770,063 soldiers: the number of men of the 1st, 2nd and 4th Ukrainian Fronts who participated in the liberation of Czechoslovakia.

140,000 dead: the number of soldiers who died during the liberation battles.

235 days: the length of combat deployment from the entry into Czechoslovakia ( September 20, 1944) to the end of the last combat operations (May 11, 1945).

6 operations: number of major operations undertaken for the liberation of the Czechoslovakia (East Carpathian, East Slovak, West Carpathian, Moravian-Ostrava, Bratislava-Brno, Prague).

62 districts: the number of districts (in the existing range) liberated by the Red Army by May 11 (including two half-liberated districts).

1.2 million prisoners: the number of German soldiers captured on the Czechoslovak territory during the six major Soviet operations.

US Army

150,000 soldiers: the number of soldiers of the US Third Army who participated in the liberation of Czechoslovakia.

116 dead: the number of members of the Third Army who were killed on the Czechoslovak territory in 1945.

769 dead: the number of American pilots who died in aerial combat over Czechoslovakia from the beginning of the bombing campaign until the end of the war.

20 days: the length of combat operations from the entry of the first American troops into Czechoslovakia (April 18) to the last clashes with the Germans (May 7).

14 districts: the number of districts (in their current extent) liberated by the Third Army by May 11, 1945 (including two half-liberated districts).