Second Battle of Târgu Frumos
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The <entity_0>, part of the First Jassy-Kishinev Offensive, was a military engagement primarily between the Wehrmacht and Red Army forces in <entity_2>, near Iași, <entity_3>. Military historian David Glantz claims the <entity_4> resulted from a Stavka order to the forces of the 2nd & 3rd Ukrainian Fronts to commence a coordinated invasion of <entity_3>. The <entity_4> of <entity_1> has been used as a case study in officer tactical education in the United States Army and other armies, teaching how a mobile defense can defeat an armoured spearhead. The attack aiming at <entity_1> was the initial attempt by the Red Army to achieve its goal of deceiving the OKH, and testing the Axis defenses in <entity_3> while preventing movement of reserves to the Belorussian sector of the Eastern Front. The <entity_4> of <entity_1> was a series of engagements and smaller combats over several days during which armoured forces of the Wehrmacht LVII Panzer Corps, in particular of the Grossdeutschland Division and 24th Panzer Division, engaged the Red Army’s 16th Tank Corps of the 2nd Tank Army, which was also attacking from the north. The <entity_4> reduced Soviet tank strength to a point where a continued attack into <entity_3> was not possible. During the <entity_4>, Hasso von Manteuffel, commander of the Grossdeutschland division, first encountered the new Soviet Stalin tank, "It was at <entity_1> that I first met the Stalin tanks. Historian David Glantz has found some mention of operations in <entity_3> in April and <entity_2> in divisional histories. Despite German claims that the Soviet attack was a full-fledged offensive, it appears now that the <entity_4> of <entity_1> was a relatively small-scale operation in the context of 1944's fighting on the Eastern Front, even though a Soviet success would have put the Red Army into a much stronger position for its eventual attack into <entity_3>. On a political level, the <entity_4> accelerated the activities of anti-German forces in <entity_3>, leading to negotiations between the traditional political parties and the Romanian Communist Party, represented by Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu.
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