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Amphibious operation by the Red Army during World War II
The Moonsund landing operation (Russian: Моонзундская десантная операция; Estonian: Lääne-Eesti saarte kaitsmine; Swedish: Moonsund Invasionen) was an
Moonsund_operation
2015 film
political officer. Back fighting on the Sõrve Peninsula during the Moonsund operation in November, Jüri's unit captures a group of sixteen-year-old Estonian
1944_(film)
Military unit
duration of the war. Late that month it was committed to the amphibious operation to secure Saaremaa and the other Baltic islands, a campaign that continued
131st_Rifle_Division
1944 military conflict in Estonia during WW II
Schlacht von Tehumardi) was a battle on October 8, 1944, related to the Moonsund Operation during World War II. Soviet soldiers fought German troops occupying
Battle_of_Tehumardi
Strategic offensive during WWII
on to take the remaining West Estonian islands (Moonsund archipelago) in the Moonsund Landing Operation, an amphibious attack. Overall, the Baltic offensive
Tallinn_offensive
1917 naval battle in the Baltic Sea
to destroy the Russian Army and occupy the West Estonian Archipelago (Moonsund Archipelago). The Germans captured the archipelago, with its main islands
Battle_of_Moon_Sound
subset of the overall Baltic Offensive, 8th Army was part of the Moonsund Operation in November that cleared Axis forces from the West Estonian archipelago
Filipp_Starikov
1940 order of battle during WWII
(scuttled on 14 April when intercepted by the Royal Navy cruiser Suffolk) Moonsund (tanker) (sunk on 12 April by the British submarine Snapper) Objective
Norwegian campaign order of battle
Norwegian_campaign_order_of_battle
Topics referred to by the same term
a Sweden-focused exploratory mining company Operation Beowulf, two German plans to occupy the Moonsund archipelago during World War II SMS Beowulf, a
Beowulf_(disambiguation)
Military unit
North). The division participated in the occupation of Tallinn and the Moonsund Archipelago. After the fall of Tallinn the Germans had to clear the Baltic
61st Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
61st_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)
14 September – 24 October 1944 Tallinn offensive 17–26 September 1944 Moonsund landing 5–22 October 1944 Memel offensive 27 September – 24 November 1944
Red Army strategic operations in World War II
Red_Army_strategic_operations_in_World_War_II
Battle of World War II in Estonia
went on to take the remaining West Estonian archipelago in the Moonsund Landing Operation. The Baltic Offensive resulted in the expulsion of the German
Battle_of_Narva_(1944)
Porkuni Moonsund Landing Operation Battle of Tehumardi Battle of Memel Liberation of Finnmark Battle of Serbia Belgrade Offensive Niš operation Lapland
List_of_World_War_II_battles
1944 military conflicts in Baltic states during WW II
Leningrad Front to drive German forces from mainland Estonia. The Moonsund Landing Operation (Russian: Моонзундская десантная операция) (27 September–24 November
Baltic_offensive
1941 military operation in Estonia during WWII
Operation Beowulf refers to two German plans to occupy the islands of Saaremaa, Hiiumaa and Muhu, off the Estonian west coast. Both plans had the same
Operation_Beowulf
Soviet destroyer
splinters killed two and wounded eight crew members. During the Moonsund operations she fired over 360 76 mm and a similar amount of 45 mm shells, as
Soviet_destroyer_Svirepy
German field marshal (1892–1973)
breaching the Metaxas Line. With this division, Schörner took part in Operation Barbarossa in June 1941. The 6th Gebirgs Division was assigned to the
Ferdinand_Schörner
Largest island in Estonia
(as of January 2020). The main island of the West Estonian archipelago (Moonsund archipelago), it is located in the Baltic Sea, south of Hiiumaa island
Saaremaa
Peninsula in Estonia
1941 Operation Beowulf. The peninsula saw heavy fighting between the invading Soviet and defending German forces in October and November 1944 (Moonsund Landing
Sõrve_Peninsula
Red Army group on the Eastern Front of World War II
Baltic fleet, took part in recapturing the Moonsund archipelago. These were the last offensive operations of the front. Forces of the Leningrad Front
Leningrad_Front
Military unit
with the Baltic Fleet conducted the Moonsund Landing Operation to capture the West Estonian archipelago (Moonsund archipelago). From December 1944, the
8th_Army_(Soviet_Union)
World War II-era German torpedo boats
began bombarding Soviet positions in October during the Soviet Moonsund Landing Operation as the Germans began evacuating the islands off the west coast
Type_39_torpedo_boat
Part of the war
1917, the Imperial German Army occupied the West Estonian archipelago (Moonsund archipelago), including the larger islands of Saaremaa (Ösel), Hiiumaa
German occupation of Estonia during World War I
German_occupation_of_Estonia_during_World_War_I
World War II naval battles
equipment, supplies and guns and was heading to Saarenmaa for the Moonsund Landing Operation. On 18 November 1944, U-679 sunk the Soviet patrol boat SK-62
Gulf of Finland U-boat campaign
Gulf_of_Finland_U-boat_campaign
capture entire mainland Estonia. 29: Soviet forces begin the Moonsund Landing Operation to capture the West Estonian archipelago from German forces. 30:
Timeline of World War II (1944)
Timeline_of_World_War_II_(1944)
Battleship class of the German Imperial Navy
this end, the Admiralstab (the Navy High Command) planned an operation in the Moonsund archipelago, particularly targeting the Russian gun batteries
Kaiser-class_battleship
Naval infantry arm of the Russian Navy
Peninsula, one during the Caucasus Campaign and one as part of the Landing at Moonsund, in the Baltic. During the Soviet-Japanese War of 1945, Soviet naval infantry
Russian_Naval_Infantry
retreat from Estonia. Resistance against the Soviets continued in the Moonsund Archipelago until November 23, 1944, when the Germans evacuated the Sõrve
German occupation of Estonia during World War II
German_occupation_of_Estonia_during_World_War_II
Soviet Armenian Admiral of the Fleet (1894–1967)
He briefly saw action against the Germans in West Estonian archipelago (Moonsund archipelago). He continued his service after the October Revolution in
Ivan_Isakov
Maritime service branch of the Soviet Armed Forces
four major operations: two during the Battle of the Kerch Peninsula, one during the Caucasus Campaign and one as part of the Landing at Moonsund, in the
Soviet_Navy
Village in Estonia
text and symbols ahead of the tourism season. Tehumardi quarry Moonsund Landing Operation Salme River "Population by place of residence (settlement), sex
Tehumardi
Russian Navy fleet
Viborg, Tallinn, (Estonia), Riga, (Latvia), the West Estonian archipelago (Moonsund archipelago), Helsinki, (Finland), and Turku. The Russian Navy won an important
Baltic_Fleet
Armoured car
service. In early October 1917 two naval Garfords took part in the battle of Moonsund during which they supported the Naval death battalion of Captain of the
Garford-Putilov_armoured_car
Petropavlovsk-class battleship
Moonzunda [Armored Cruiser "Bayan" and her Offspring. From Port Artur to Moonsund.] (in Russian). Moscow: Yauza / EKSMO. ISBN 978-5-699-51559-2. Westwood
Russian battleship Petropavlovsk (1894)
Russian_battleship_Petropavlovsk_(1894)
Parish church. The three German divisions in the West Estonian archipelago (Moonsund archipelago) resisted until 23 November 1944. According to Soviet data
Estonia_in_World_War_II
Month of 1944
Sino-Japanese War ended in Japanese victory. The Baltic Offensive and the Moonsund Landing Operation ended in Soviet victory. The government of Ferenc Szálasi in Hungary
November_1944
Soviet Storozhevoy-class destroyers
batteries on both occasions. While anchored in the Rohuküla roadstead in the Moonsund on 18 August, Statny came under German air attack at 10:10 and weighed
Soviet destroyer Statny (1939)
Soviet_destroyer_Statny_(1939)
Military unit
9 August 1944. Narva Offensive (July 1944) Tallinn Offensive Moonsund Landing Operation During the war, the 13th Air Army made 120,000 sorties. Ten units
76th_Air_Army
Military unit
ordered the Baltic Islands to be reinforced During the Soviet Moonsund Landing Operation, the 23rd Infantry Division was backed by miscellaneous Kriegsmarine
218th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
218th_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)
Soviet Navy's Gnevny-class destroyer
explosion of two mines. The destroyer subsequently fought in the defense of Moonsund and Tallinn, Estonia, as German ground forces advanced northward, as well
Soviet_destroyer_Gordy_(1937)
Month of 1944
(apparent complications from exhaustion) The Red Army began the Moonsund Landing Operation, an amphibious assault as part of the Baltic Offensive. The Battle
September_1944
Island in Estonia
Osmussaar many vessels sailed to Rohuküla of Haapsalu to support the Moonsund Landing Operation on the occupied Hiiumaa and Saaremaa islands. On 4 October the
Osmussaar
Destroyer of the Soviet Navy
Kuivastu, Estonia, on the 27th and then helped to escort Kirov through the Moonsund archipelago to Tallinn, Estonia, three days later as the Soviets evacuated
Soviet_destroyer_Grozyashchy
Soviet Storozhevoy-class destroyer
Tallinn. From 13 July, again with Svirepy and Strashny, she operated in Moonsund and the Gulf of Riga, fighting off repeated German air attacks. On 23 July
Soviet_destroyer_Smely_(1939)
Russian Storozhevoy-class destroyer
30 June, escorting the cruiser Kirov through Moonsund. Stoyky grounded her right propeller in Moonsund on 12 July, knocking its shaft out of alignment
Soviet destroyer Stoyky (1938)
Soviet_destroyer_Stoyky_(1938)
British naval officer, yachtsman, author
sank six ships, mainly in the Skagerrak Strait. These include the tanker Moonsund, the merchant ship Florida, the minesweepers H. M. Behrens and Carsten
Bill King (Royal Navy officer)
Bill_King_(Royal_Navy_officer)
Month of 1941
from the original on 17 May 2009. Retrieved 9 September 2021. "Moonsund defensive operation of the Great Patriotic War began". Boris Yeltsin Presidential
October_1941
Soviet Storozhevoy-class destroyer
more sorties to Moonsund and the Gulf of Riga, but had her screw damaged by grounding or contact with a shipwreck near shoals in Moonsund. She was sent
Soviet_destroyer_Silny
capture by the Germans. TShch-80 Soviet Navy The auxiliary minesweeper was torpedoed and sunk by S-58 ( Kriegsmarine) off Moonsund.[citation needed]
List of shipwrecks in August 1941
List_of_shipwrecks_in_August_1941
Wrecksite. Retrieved 2 November 2011. "War diary German Naval Staff Operations Division, April 1940". Retrieved 25 April 2020. "Norwegian Homefleet -
List of shipwrecks in April 1940
List_of_shipwrecks_in_April_1940
Soviet destroyer
from German air attack as she was departing the area. While steaming from Moonsund to Tallinn on 27 August, the detonation of a mine in her paravanes caused
Soviet destroyer Surovy (1940)
Soviet_destroyer_Surovy_(1940)
Sidewheel steamer built for a Russian shipping company, later minesweeper
without its twin No. 18), immediately set out to the port of Rohuküla in the Moonsund Archipelago. This group (numbers 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, Zapal, and Kapsiul)
Apostol_Paviel
Destroyer of the Soviet Navy
Kuivastu, Estonia, on the 27th and then helped to escort Kirov through the Moonsund archipelago to Tallinn, Estonia, three days later as the Soviets evacuated
Soviet destroyer Smetlivy (1937)
Soviet_destroyer_Smetlivy_(1937)
MOONSUND OPERATION
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Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Middle English, Old French sur(ri)gien (from a derivative of Late Latin chirurgia ‘handiwork’), hence an occupational name for a person who performed operations, mostly amputations. Before the advent of anaesthetics, only crude surgery was possible, and the calling was often combined with that of the barber or bath house attendant.French : topographic name for someone who lived close to a gushing spring.
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Method; Way; Mode; Manner; Operation; Process
Surname or Lastname
German and Dutch
German and Dutch : from Middle High German bloch, Middle Dutch blok ‘block of wood’, ‘stocks’. The surname probably originated as a nickname for a large, lumpish man, or perhaps as a nickname for a persistent lawbreaker who found himself often in the stocks.English : possibly a metonymic occupational name for someone who blocks, as in shoemaking and bookbinding, from Middle English blok ‘block’.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : Americanized spelling of Bloch (see Vlach).Adriaen Coertsz Block was a Dutch-born merchant-explorer who traded along the CT coast and Long Island shortly after Hudson’s voyage to the region in 1609. Block Island, between the north fork of Long Island and RI, which he used as a base of operations, is named after him.
Surname or Lastname
English (mainly East Anglia)
English (mainly East Anglia) : nickname for a lordly, impressive, or sharp-eyed man, from Middle English egle ‘eagle’ (from Old French aigle, from Latin aquila).English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Laigle in Orne, France, the name of which ostensibly means ‘the eagle’, although it is possible that the recorded forms result from the operation of early folk etymology on some unknown original. Matilda de Aquila is recorded in 1129 as the widow of Robert Mowbray, Earl of Northumberland.Jewish : translation into English of Adler.
MOONSUND OPERATION
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American, Australian, Celtic, Christian, Scottish
From the Dark River; Form of Douglas
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Indian, Tamil
King of Dance
Boy/Male
Tamil
Heaven, Peace
Girl/Female
Tamil
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Month
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Beautiful
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Lord of Love
Boy/Male
Muslim
Brave
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : topographic or habitational name for residence on or near land covered with ash trees. There are minor places called Ashland(s) in Hampshire and Leicestershire, Staffordshire, and Galloway. Asland, a river name in Lancashire, refers to the lower reaches of what is more generally known as the Douglas river. It is named from Old Norse askr ‘ash’ + Old English lanu ‘lane’.Americanized form of Norwegian Ask(e)land (see Askeland).Probably an Americanized form of the common French Canadian name Asselin. Compare Ashline.In the U.S., Ashland is the name of two counties and at least thirteen cities, towns, and villages. Most, perhaps all, were named after Ashland in Lexington, KY, home of Henry Clay (1777–1852), who is said to have named his estate from a characteristic feature of the site, not from anyone’s surname.
Girl/Female
Indian
Biblical
there they are; their riches
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v. t.
To be subjected to; to bear up against; to pass through; to endure; to suffer; to sustain; as, to undergo toil and fatigue; to undergo pain, grief, or anxiety; to undergothe operation of amputation; food in the stomach undergoes the process of digestion.
n.
That which is operated or accomplished; an effect brought about in accordance with a definite plan; as, military or naval operations.
n.
The act or operation of moving in the manner of a worm; continuation of motion from one part to another; as, the vermiculation, or peristaltic motion, of the intestines.
n.
The clippings of metals made in various mechanical operations.
n.
An operation for the repair of an injury or a defect in the walls of the urethra.
n.
Accumulated and established knowledge, which has been systematized and formulated with reference to the discovery of general truths or the operation of general laws; knowledge classified and made available in work, life, or the search for truth; comprehensive, profound, or philosophical knowledge.
n.
A climbing plant of the genus Menispermum; -- so called from the crescentlike form of the seeds.
n.
A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over the upper lip or an ear of a horse. By twisting the stick the compression is made sufficiently painful to keep the animal quiet during a slight surgical operation.
n.
The plastic operation for closing a fissure in the hard palate.
n.
The operation of expelling one substance from another by heat, as sulphur or arsenic from ores, in a muffle.
n.
The operation of removing the uvula.
n.
The act or operation of transferring the blood of one man or animal into the vascular system of another; also, the introduction of any fluid into the blood vessels, or into a cavity of the body from which it can readily be adsorbed into the vessels; intrafusion; as, the peritoneal transfusion of milk.
n.
A straight, horizontal mark placed over two or more members of a compound quantity, which are to be subjected to the same operation, as in the expression x2 + y2 - x + y.
n.
The series or network of triangles into which the face of a country, or any portion of it, is divided in a trigonometrical survey; the operation of measuring the elements necessary to determine the triangles into which the country to be surveyed is supposed to be divided, and thus to fix the positions and distances of the several points connected by them.
v. t. & i.
To perforate (the skull) with a trepan, so as to remove a portion of the bone, and thus relieve the brain from pressure or irritation; to perform an operation with the trepan.
n.
A follower of Sabellius, a presbyter of Ptolemais in the third century, who maintained that there is but one person in the Godhead, and that the Son and Holy Spirit are only different powers, operations, or offices of the one God the Father.
n.
The operation of gathering grapes.
n.
The act or operation of opening a vein for letting blood; bloodletting; phlebotomy.
a.
Pertaining to, or obtained from, moonseed (Menispermum), or other plants of the same family, as the Anamirta Cocculus.
a.
Pertaining to a natural order (Menispermace/) of climbing plants of which moonseed (Menispermum) is the type.