Order of the Day July 13 1944

Order of the Day, July 13, 1944 Order of the Day, addressed to Army-General Chernyakhovsky, announces that troops of the Third Byelorussian Front to-day, July 13, as a result of five days’ fighting, liquidated the German garrison encircled in the town of Vilnius and liberated the capital of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic from the Fascist invaders. The Order mentions 81 commanders of troops, artillerymen, tankmen, airmen, sappers and signallers whose units and formations have distinguished themselves. A salute of 24 salvoes was fired by 324 Moscow guns.