campaign, major, interwar and Second World War
Operation Spring Awakening
Operation Spring Awakening was a campaign fought in 1945 at Lake Balaton, in what is now Hungary. It was part of World War II, which ran from 1939 to 1945. The recorded result: Allied victory.
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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 46.983N, 18.350E | |
| Kind | Campaign, interwar and Second World War | |
| Strength | 5 March (for the offensive): 25 divisions; 260,000 men (max); 650 tanks (376 operational); 3,200 assault guns and mortars; 850 aircraft (entire Luftflotte 4 for entire Army Group South) | 5 March: 37 divisions (discounting air armies and the Yugoslav 3rd Army); 465,000 men; 407 tanks (398 operational); 6,597 assault guns and mortars; 293 rocket launchers; 965 aircraft (17th Air Army only – 3rd Ukrainian Front) |
| Casualties and losses | German offensive (6–15 March 1945): Nazi Germany; Army Group South: 12,358 men; 31 tracked AFVs destroyed; 1 APC destroyed; Army Group F: Soviet counter-offensive (16 March–15 April 1945): 30,000 killed; 125,000 captured; 1,345 tanks/assault guns lost | |
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Nearest engagements
- Siege of Székesfehérvár 1601, 23 km N
- Siege of Székesfehérvár 1602, 25 km N
- Siege of Székesfehérvár 1490, 25 km N
- Siege of Várpalota (1533) 1533, 29 km NW
- Siege of Tihany 1534, 36 km W
In the same war
- Before: Battle of Montese 14 April 1945
- After: Battle of Berlin 16 April 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 Spring Awakening 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 Q155995, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Operation Spring Awakening, revision 1370699805, 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.