✦ History

Part of Eastern Front (World War II)

Crimean offensive

April 8 – May 12, 1944 · Crimea

Result Soviet victory

Soviet forces broke into Crimea and drove out the German and Romanian armies. They retook Sevastopol, and many Axis troops died during the evacuation by sea.

On the map Contemporaries

Soviet Union

Nazi Germany

Soviet Union
Germany
Kingdom of Romania
Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin military commander Filipp Oktyabrsky military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
462,400
Casualties
84,839
Tanks lost
171
Aircraft
1,200
Aircraft lost
179
Guns
6,000
Guns lost
521
Casualties
96,700
Wounded
5,800
Ships lost
3
Guns
1,815

Units

4th Ukrainian Front 2nd Guards Army 4th Guards Air and Air Defence Forces Army 51st Army (Russia) Separate Coastal Army 3rd Rifle Corps 126th Rifle Division 227th Rifle Division 242nd Rifle Division 263rd Rifle Division 315th Rifle Division 32nd Guards Motor Rifle Division 339th Rifle Division 33rd Guards Rifle Division 346th Rifle Division 347th Rifle Division 383rd Rifle Division 387th Rifle Division 414th Rifle Division 417th Rifle Division 87th Guards Rifle Division 89th Rifle Division 91st Rifle Division 56th Guards Air Assault Regiment Black Sea Fleet
17th Army (Wehrmacht) Army Group South Ukraine V Army Corps (Wehrmacht) 111th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 336th Infantry Division 50th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) Vânători de munte