Operation Bustard Hunt

May 1942

Result Axis victory

Soviet forces landed on the Kerch Peninsula in Crimea and were then crushed by a German-Romanian counteroffensive under Manstein. The Germans retook the peninsula and took many prisoners.

Contemporaries

Axis powers

Allies of World War II

Germany

Kingdom of Romania

Soviet Union

Erich von Manstein military commander

Wolfram von Richthofen military commander

Filipp Oktyabrsky military commander

Dmitry Timofeyevich Kozlov military commander

Strength and losses

Casualties: 38,362

Casualties: 570,601
Tanks: 238
Aircraft: 404

Units

11th Army (Wehrmacht) 8th Air Corps (Germany) XXX Army Corps (Wehrmacht) XXXXII Army Corps (Wehrmacht)

Caucasus Front (Soviet Union) Crimean Front Transcaucasus Front 44th Army 47th Army 51st Army (Russia) Separate Coastal Army 138th Rifle Division 156th Rifle Division 157th Rifle Division 224th Rifle Division 236th Rifle Division 302nd Rifle Division 320th Rifle Division 390th Rifle Division 396th Rifle Division 398th Rifle Division 400th Rifle Division 404th Rifle Division 63rd Mountain Rifle Division 76th Guards Air Assault Division Black Sea Fleet