Second Battle of Bolimów
Battle in 1915 during the First World War / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Second Battle of Bolimów was a battle of World War I between the Imperial German Army and Imperial Russian Army. The Germans successfully used poison gases, causing panic in the ranks of the Imperial Russian Army and inflicting huge casualties on it at the cost of negligible casualties of their own.
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Second Battle of Bolimów | |||||||
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Part of the Eastern Front of World War I | |||||||
German summer offensive in the Eastern Front 1915 | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
German Empire | Russian Empire | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Paul von Hindenburg Erich Ludendorff | Vladimir Smirnov | ||||||
Units involved | |||||||
Ninth Army | Second Army | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
296,303 men[1] | 2nd Army: 307,702 men[2] 5th Army: 350,000 men | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
31 May: 374[3] KIA, MIA, WIA 12 June: 1,100[4] KIA, MIA, WIA 6-7 July: unknown, but very small |
31 May: 10,856[5] KIA, MIA, WIA 12 June: 5,821[6] KIA, MIA, WIA 6-7 July: 10,104[7] KIA, MIA, WIA |
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