Battle of Voronezh (1942)

Battle of Voronezh (1942)
Part of Case Blue in the Eastern Front of World War II

The Eastern Front at the time of the Battle of Voronezh. (click to enlarge)
Date28 June – 24 July 1942
Location
Result Axis victory
Belligerents
 Germany
 Hungary

 Romania
 Italy
 Slovakia
 Soviet Union
Commanders and leaders
Fedor von Bock
Maximilian von Weichs
Wilhelm List
Hermann Hoth
Hans von Salmuth
Friedrich Paulus
Gusztáv Jány
Ewald von Kleist
Richard Ruoff
Filipp Golikov
Nikandr Chibisov
Semyon Timoshenko
Rodion Malinovsky
Pavel Korzun [ru]
Grigory Khalyuzin [ru]
Nikolai Pukhov
Mikhail Parsegov
Fyodor Kharitonov
Maksim Antoniuk
Alexei Danilov [ru]
Dmitry Ryabyshev
Kirill Moskalenko
Anton Lopatin
Dmitry Nikishov [ru]
Pyotr Kozlov
Andrei Grechko
Fyodor Kamkov [ru]
Viktor Tsyganov
Ilya Smirnov
Units involved

Army Group B[a]

Army Group A[b]

Bryansk Front

Voronezh Front[c]

Southwestern Front

Southern Front

Strength
975,000 1,300,000
Casualties and losses
94,500 casualties including 19,000 KIA and MIA[1] 568,347
200,000 killed and 80,000 captured[1]
197,825 wounded.[2]
568,347, thereof 370,522 killed or missing and 197 825 wounded.[3]

The Battle of Voronezh, or First Battle of Voronezh, was a battle on the Eastern Front of World War II, fought in and around the strategically important city of Voronezh on the Don river, 450 km (280 mi) south of Moscow, from 28 June-24 July 1942, as opening move of the German summer offensive in 1942.

The battle was marked by heavy urban fighting, and ferocious street-fighting, showing what was to come at the Battle of Stalingrad.[4][5]


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  1. ^ a b "ВОЕННАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА --[ Исследования ]-- Бешанов В.В. Год 1942 - "учебный"" (in Russian).
  2. ^ Glantz (1995)2,436 tanks, 13,716 guns and mortars and 783 aircraft were destroyed or captured, p. 295
  3. ^ David M. Glantz & Jonathan M. House, When Titans Clashed. How the Red Army Stopped Hitler, Revised and Expanded Edition, 2015 by University Press of Kansas. Table Q, p. 394.
  4. ^ Craig 1973, pp. 19, 157–158
  5. ^ Beevor 1998, pp. 74