campaign, interwar and Second World War
Operation Konrad III
Operation Konrad III was a campaign fought in 1945 at Lake Balaton, in what is now Hungary. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at Lake Balaton. It was part of World War II, which ran from 1939 to 1945. The recorded result: Inconclusive.
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Where it sits in World War II
Record
| Date | 1945 (year precision) to 1945 | |
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| Place | Lake Balaton, Hungary 46.850N, 17.720E | |
| Kind | Campaign, interwar and Second World War | |
| Strength | Initial attack sector on 18 January: about 65,000 men; 376 operational AFVs | Initial attack sector on 18 January: 250 operational AFVs |
| Casualties and losses | 164 tanks, assault guns, and tank destroyers destroyed (all of January for 6th Army) | 804 tanks, assault guns, and tank destroyers destroyed (all of January for 3rd Ukrainian Front) |
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Nearest engagements
- Siege of Tihany 1534, 14 km NE
- Siege of Várpalota (1533) 1533, 50 km NE
- Operation Spring Awakening 1945, 50 km E
- Siege of Székesfehérvár 1601, 65 km NE
- Siege of Székesfehérvár 1602, 66 km NE
In the same war
- Before: Liberation of Warsaw 1945
- After: Battle of Tarnova 1945
- All 1155 engagements of World War II
Elsewhere in 1945
- atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan
- Battle of Iwo Jima Japan
- Battle of Okinawa Japan
- Soviet invasion of Manchuria China
- Soviet–Japanese War Russia
Operation Konrad III is one of 4,429 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 128 in present-day Hungary.
Sources
Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q49000349, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Operation Konrad III, revision 1370693276, read 2026-11-15, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.