✦ History

Kamenets–Podolsky pocket

March 25 – April 15, 1944 · Ternopil

Soviet forces trapped the German First Panzer Army in a pocket near Kamianets-Podilskyi in Ukraine. The Germans broke out westward after heavy fighting, though with severe losses of equipment.

On the map Contemporaries

Germany

Soviet Union

Germany
Hungary
Soviet Union
Adolf Hitler belligerent leader Erich von Manstein military commander Géza Lakatos military commander Walter Model military commander Erhard Raus military commander
Joseph Stalin military commander Georgy Zhukov military commander

Strength and losses

Hungary Casualties 15,571

Units

Army Group South 1st Panzer Army 4th Panzer Army Army Group North Ukraine II SS Panzer Corps III Army Corps (Wehrmacht) 101st Jäger Division 10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg 168th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 16th Panzer Division 17th Panzer Division 18th Artillery Division (Wehrmacht) 19th Panzer Division 1st Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 1st Panzer Division (Wehrmacht) 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler 208th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 20th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 291st Infantry Division 357th Infantry Division 371st Infantry Division 6th Panzer Division 75th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 7th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht) 82nd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 96th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen
1st Ukrainian Front 106th Rifle Division 107th Rifle Division 121st Guards Rifle Division 135th Rifle Division 140th Rifle Division 141st Rifle Division 162nd Rifle Division 211th Rifle Division 221st Rifle Division 246th Rifle Division 302nd Rifle Division 395th Rifle Division 68th Guards Rifle Division 70th Guards Rifle Division 752nd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment