Battle of the Dukla Pass (1944)

Battle of the Dukla Pass (Hungary vs Czechoslovakia) took place in 1944 during Eastern Front.

Battle facts

• Year: 1944
• Date: 1944-10-28
• Era: Modern
• Conflict: Eastern Front
• Side A: Hungary
• Side B: Czechoslovakia
• Commanders (A): Gotthard Heinrici, Béla Miklós (8–16 Oct 1944), Dezső László (16 Oct – 28 Oct 1944)
• Commanders (B): Ivan Konev, Andrei Grechko, Kirill Moskalenko, Ludvík Svoboda
• Casualties: 61,000 (Czech estimates) 70,000 (modern Russian estimates) (Hungary), : 10,060 killed 41,387 wounded 13,548 sick 1,806 missing (modern Czech estimates) 131,000 (German historian Freiser) : 935 killed 4,518 wounded 756 missing (Czechoslovakia)
• Outcome: Soviet failure to join Slovak rebel troops Eventual Axis withdrawal from the area
• Coordinates: 49.418°, 21.699°

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