✦ History

Part of World War II, Eastern Front (World War II)

Battle of Debrecen

October 6–29, 1944 · Battle site

Result Inconclusive

A large tank battle on the Hungarian plain: the Red Army and its new Romanian allies took Debrecen and northern Transylvania but could not trap the German and Hungarian armies.

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Axis

Allies

Germany
Hungary
Soviet Union
Kingdom of Romania
Johannes Frießner military commander Maximilian Fretter-Pico military commander
Rodion Malinovsky military commander Issa Pliyev military commander Nicolae Macici military commander Gheorghe Avramescu military commander

Strength and losses

Tanks lost
c. 500
Aircraft
1,216
Guns lost
1,656

Soviet Union Strength 698,200

Kingdom of Romania Strength 167,306 · Casualties 33,500

Units

Army Group South 8th Army (Wehrmacht) 6th Army (Wehrmacht) Second Army (Hungary) Third Army (Hungary) 13th Panzer Division 31st SS Volunteer Grenadier Division Panzer-Grenadier-Division Feldherrnhalle
2nd Ukrainian Front 27th Army (Soviet Union) 40th Army (Soviet Union) 46th Army 53rd Army (Soviet Union) 6th Guards Tank Army 7th Guards Army First Army (Romania) Fourth Army (Romania) 7th Mechanized Corps 110th Guards Rifle Division 163rd Rifle Division 202nd Rifle Division 203rd Rifle Division 232nd Rifle Division 240th Rifle Division 337th Rifle Division 6th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)