Odessa Offensive

March 26 – April 30, 1944

Result Soviet victory

Soviet forces drove German and Romanian troops back across southern Ukraine to the Dniester and captured Odessa. The offensive was part of the wider Dnieper-Carpathian operations.

Contemporaries

Soviet Union

Nazi Germany

Soviet Union

Germany

Kingdom of Romania

Slovak Republic

Rodion Malinovsky military commander

Ferdinand Schörner military commander

Petre Dumitrescu military commander

Maximilian de Angelis military commander

Units

37th Army (Soviet Union) 108th Guards Rifle Division 109th Guards Rifle Division 113th Rifle Division 195th Rifle Division 203rd Rifle Division 243rd Rifle Division 244th Rifle Division 248th Rifle Division 259th Rifle Division 35th Guards Rifle Division 61st Guards Rifle Division 73rd Guards Rifle Division 74th Guards Rifle Division 82nd Guards Rifle Division 86th Guards Rifle Division 88th Guards Rifle Division 93rd Rifle Division (1942–1946) 96th Guards Rifle Division

Army Group A 6th Army (Wehrmacht) Army Group South Ukraine Third Army (Romania) XVII Army Corps (Wehrmacht) XXIX Army Corps (Wehrmacht) XXX Army Corps (Wehrmacht) XXXXIV Army Corps (Wehrmacht) 15th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 17th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 1st Mobile Infantry Division (Slovak Republic) 257th Infantry Division 258th Infantry Division 294th Infantry Division 2nd Parachute Division 306th Infantry Division 320th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 335th Infantry Division 384th Infantry Division 3rd Mountain Division 76th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 97th Jäger Division 9th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)