Nõukogude armee realiseerimata plaanid Kuramaa rannikul Melnsil ja Gipkas

At the end of the Second World War, the 6th Battery of the German Navy's 532nd Artillery Division was stationed in Black Sill, armed with four 105 mm guns, three 37 mm guns, one four-barrel 20 mm gun, one 75 mm anti-tank gun and one 81 mm mortar for illumination. The Kurzeme coast between Melnsil and Gipka could have been one of the two Red Army naval landing sites. The other was to be between Mazirbe and Pitrags. Shortly before the end of hostilities, the Red Army's 8th Army of the Leningrad Front planned to use ships of the Baltic Fleet and land three rifle divisions in several sorties. The preparatory phase of the operation took place at the end of April 1945, but the start of the operation was timed to coincide with the ground offensive, which was originally planned for early May but was postponed. The extensive plans did not materialise until the surrender of Army Group Kurzeme.