Operation München

July 2–26, 1941 · Bessarabia

Result Axis victory

German and Romanian troops attacked Soviet forces in Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina. Romania took back the lands it had lost to the Soviet Union in 1940.

On the map Contemporaries

Soviet Union

Kingdom of Romania

Soviet Union

Kingdom of Romania

Germany

Filipp Oktyabrsky military commander

Yakov Cherevichenko military commander Andrei Smirnov military commander

Ivan Tyulenev military commander

Ion Antonescu military commander

Petre Dumitrescu military commander

Nicolae Ciupercă military commander

Strength and losses

Strength: 364,700
Casualties: 17,893
Wounded: 9,374
Tanks: 700
Aircraft: 1,750
Aircraft lost: 255

Casualties: 21,738
Killed: 4,112
Wounded: 12,120
Missing: 5,506
Tanks: 201
Aircraft lost: 58
Ships: 4

Kingdom of Romania Strength 325,685

Units

12th Army (Soviet Union) 18th Army (Soviet Union) 9th Army (Soviet Union) 2nd Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union) 15th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) 25th Rifle Division 51st Rifle Division

Army Group South 11th Army (Wehrmacht) Fourth Army (Romania) Third Army (Romania)