Operation Edelweiss

July 23 – November 18, 1942

Result Soviet victory

German forces advanced into the Caucasus toward the oil fields at Maykop, Grozny and Baku. Soviet defence stopped them short and the Germans later had to pull back.

Contemporaries

Axis powers

Allies of World War II

Germany

Kingdom of Romania

Slovak Republic

Soviet Union

Wilhelm List military commander

Eberhard von Mackensen military commander

Petre Dumitrescu military commander

Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist military commander

Rodion Malinovsky military commander

Semyon Budyonny military commander

Filipp Oktyabrsky military commander

Ivan Yefimovich Petrov military commander

Ivan Tyulenev military commander

Strength and losses

Casualties: 360,000

Units

Army Group A 1st Panzer Army Third Army (Romania) LII Army Corps (Wehrmacht) XXXXIV Army Corps (Wehrmacht) 111th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 13th Panzer Division 1st Mobile Infantry Division (Slovak Republic) 23rd Panzer Division 370th Infantry Division 50th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 5th Luftwaffe Field Division

North Caucasus Front Transcaucasus Front 44th Army 46th Army 4th Guards Air and Air Defence Forces Army 9th Army (Soviet Union) 3rd Rifle Corps 110th Cavalry Division 151st Rifle Division 176th Rifle Division 223rd Rifle Division 230th Rifle Division 236th Rifle Division 242nd Rifle Division 304th Rifle Division 317th Rifle Division 318th Rifle Division 319th Rifle Division 320th Rifle Division 328th Rifle Division 32nd Guards Motor Rifle Division 335th Rifle Division 337th Rifle Division 339th Rifle Division 347th Rifle Division 349th Rifle Division 351st Rifle Division 353rd Rifle Division 383rd Rifle Division 392nd Rifle Division 394th Rifle Division 395th Rifle Division 402nd Rifle Division 406th Rifle Division 408th Rifle Division 409th Rifle Division 414th Rifle Division 416th Rifle Division 417th Rifle Division 89th Rifle Division 131st Separate Motor Rifle Brigade