Operation Platinum Fox

Operation Platinum Fox
Part of Operation Silver Fox
Date29 June – 21 September 1941
(2 months, 3 weeks and 2 days)
Location
Result Soviet victory
Belligerents
 Germany
 Finland
 Soviet Union
Commanders and leaders
Nazi Germany Eduard Dietl Soviet Union Valerian A. Frolov
Strength
2nd Mountain Division
3rd Mountain Division
2 additional SS regiments[1]
Finnish 14th Infantry Regiment[2]
Finnish Ivalo Border Guard Battalion
27,500 men (initially)[3]
14th Rifle Division
52nd Rifle Division
1st Polar Division
Soviet Northern Fleet
Casualties and losses
10,300 overall[4] Unknown

Operation Platinum Fox (German: Unternehmen Platinfuchs; Finnish: operaatio Platinakettu) was a German and Finnish military offensive launched during World War II. Platinum Fox took place on the Eastern Front and had the objective of capturing the Barents Sea port of Murmansk. It was part of a larger operation, called Operation Silver Fox (Silberfuchs; Hopeakettu).

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference mj834 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Nenye et al. (2016); p. 14.
  3. ^ Mann & Jörgensen (2002), p. 81.
  4. ^ Mann & Jörgensen (2002), p. 87.