Danube Delta Campaign | |||||||
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Part of the Eastern Front of World War II | |||||||
The Romanian monitor Mihail Kogălniceanu in 1941 | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Romania | Soviet Union | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Eugeniu Roșca | Alexander Frolov | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
2 river monitors 4 torpedo gunboats |
3 river monitors 5+ patrol boats | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
None |
3 monitors damaged 2 patrol boats sunk 3 patrol boats damaged 1 tug damaged 1 barge sunk |
The Danube Delta Campaign was a series of naval engagements between the Soviet Danube Flotilla and its Romanian counterpart in late June 1941, during the first days of Operation Barbarossa.