Order of the Day, September 22, 1944

Order of the Day, addressed to Marshal Govorov, announces that troops of the Leningrad Front, as a result of a vigorous offensive, to-day, September 22, captured the capital of the Esthonian S.S.R., the town of Tallinn (Reval), an important naval base and large port on the Baltic Sea. The Order mentions 49 commanders of troops,
artillerymen, tankmen, airmen, sappers and signallers whose units and formations have distinguished themselves. A salute of 24 salvoes was fired from 324 Moscow guns.