✦ History

Part of Eastern Front (World War II)

Crimean campaign

October 18, 1941 – July 4, 1942 · Crimea

Result Axis victory

German and Romanian forces invaded Crimea and besieged Sevastopol. After a long siege they took the city in July 1942.

On the map Contemporaries

Nazi Germany

Soviet Union

Germany
Kingdom of Romania
Soviet Union
Erich von Manstein participant Wolfram von Richthofen participant Maximilian Fretter-Pico military commander Hans Graf von Sponeck military commander Gheorghe Avramescu military commander
Filipp Oktyabrsky military commander Dmitry Timofeyevich Kozlov military commander Gordey Levchenko military commander Ivan Yefimovich Petrov military commander

Strength and losses

Captured
65,000
Guns lost
c. 672
Vehicles lost
c. 212

Units

Army Group South 11th Army (Wehrmacht) Third Army (Romania) 8th Air Corps (Germany) LIV Army Corps XXX Army Corps (Wehrmacht) XXXXII Army Corps (Wehrmacht) 22nd Panzer Division Vânători de munte
Crimean Front 44th Army 47th Army 51st Army (Russia) Separate Coastal Army 106th Rifle Division 156th Rifle Division 157th Rifle Division 224th Rifle Division 236th Rifle Division 25th Rifle Division 318th Rifle Division 320th Rifle Division 321st Rifle Division 345th Rifle Division Black Sea Fleet