The Soviet evacuation of Tallinn, also called Soviet Dunkerque or Tallinn disaster was a Soviet operation to evacuate parts of its Red Fleet and Red Army units from the encircled city of Tallinn in August 1941.
After the German invasion of the Soviet Union began in June 1941, German forces advanced rapidly through the Soviet-occupied Baltic states, and by the end of August the Estonian capital of Tallinn was surrounded by the German Army, while i...
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The Soviet evacuation of Tallinn, also called Soviet Dunkerque or Tallinn disaster was a Soviet operation to evacuate parts of its Red Fleet and Red Army units from the encircled city of Tallinn in August 1941.
After the German invasion of the Soviet Union began in June 1941, German forces advanced rapidly through the Soviet-occupied Baltic states, and by the end of August the Estonian capital of Tallinn was surrounded by the German Army, while in the harbor was the majority of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet. The German and Finnish naval commanders foresaw the upcoming Soviet naval retreat and planned accordingly by dropping nearly 3,000 mines off Cape Juminda. At Cape Juminda, the Germans installed a battery of 150 mm (5.9 in) artillery. The Finns gathered their 2nd Motor Torpedo Boat Flotilla with torpedo boats VMV9, VMV10, VMV11 and VMV17, while the Germans gathered the torpedo boats S-26, S-27, S-39, S-40 and S-101 and based them at Sveaborg outside Helsinki. German Junkers Ju 88...
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