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...
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The Battle of Voronezh may refer to two battles of the Eastern Front of World War II around the city of Voronezh in Russia: Battle of Voronezh (1942), from...
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Alexander Lizyukov (category 1942 deaths)
south-west of Yelets and then north-west of Yefremov. During the early stages of the Battle of Voronezh (1942), the command of the Bryansk Front selected 5th Tank...
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The 1943 Battle of Voronezh or Voronezh–Kastornoye offensive operation (often credited in Russian as the liberation of Voronezh (освобождение Воронежа))...
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June–November 1942 Operation Braunschweig: July–November 1942 Battle of Voronezh (1942) Battle of the Caucasus Malaya Zemlya Battle of Kalach Battle of Stalingrad...
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following is a list of the casualties count in battles or offensives in world history. The list includes both sieges (not technically battles but usually yielding...
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in the Caucasus. Later on the goal of capturing Stalingrad was added. June 28: Battle of Voronezh (1942) – Voronezh taken by the advancing Germans July:...
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Second Army (Hungary) (category Field armies of Hungary)
In June and July 1942, prior to the Battle of Stalingrad, the Hungarian Second Army was involved in the Battle of Voronezh as part of Army Group B. Fighting...
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1st Ukrainian Front (redirect from Voronezh Front)
part in the capture of Berlin, the capital of Nazi Germany. The Voronezh front was established at the end of June 1942 when tanks of the German Wehrmacht's...
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Voronezh (/vəˈroʊnɪʃ, -ˈrɒn-/ və-ROH-nish, -RO-; Russian: Воронеж, IPA: [vɐˈronʲɪʂ] ) is a city and the administrative centre of Voronezh Oblast in southwestern...
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Hermann Hoth (category Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords)
November 1942, Hoth's army group made an unsuccessful relief attempt. Afterwards, Hoth was involved in the Third Battle of Kharkov as well as the Battle of Kursk...
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The Voronezh–Kharkov strategic offensive operation was a successful strategic offensive operation of the Red Army's Voronezh, Bryansk and South-Western...
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Gustav-Adolf von Nostitz-Wallwitz (category Military personnel of the Kingdom of Saxony)
Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. Gustav Adolf was born into the collateral branch of an old, noble House of Nostitz, as the son of Max von...
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Nikolai Vatutin (category Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union alumni)
in the Ukrainian SSR as the commander of the Southwestern Front, and of the Voronezh Front during the Battle of Kursk. During the Soviet offensive to...
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16th Army (Soviet Union) (category Field armies of the Soviet Union)
command of the Bryansk Front as part of new command arrangements made by Soviet High Command in response to the disastrous Battle of Voronezh (1942). General...
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The Second Battle of Kharkov or Operation Fredericus was an Axis counter-offensive in the region around Kharkov against the Red Army Izium bridgehead...
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57th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) (category Infantry divisions of Germany during World War II)
1941 – 10 April 1942 Generalleutnant Oskar Blümm, 10 April 1942 – 10 October 1942 General der Infanterie Friedrich Siebert, 10 October 1942 – 20 February...
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Case Blue (category Battles of World War II involving Hungary)
German total of 175. By 5 July, forward elements of Fourth Panzer Army had reached the Don River near Voronezh and became embroiled in the battle to capture...
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Crimean campaign (redirect from Battle of Crimea)
submarine towards the end of the siege and the city surrendered on 4 July 1942, although some Soviet troops held out in caves outside of the city until 9 July...
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VII Army Corps (Wehrmacht) (category Corps of Germany in World War II)
Fahrmbacher, 25 October 1940 – 8 January 1942 Artillery General (General der Artillerie) Ernst-Eberhard Hell, 8 January 1942 – 5 October 1943 Infantry General...
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Karl-Heinz Meltzer (category Recipients of the Gold German Cross)
Fighter Wing – East) in the spring of 1942 during which he survived a major crash, he was transferred on 28 July 1942 as an Unteroffizier to 8./Jagdgeschwader...
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joined the battle. These were positioned in such a way that Reiter's Briansk Front was on the northern flank of Army Group South, while Voronezh was directly...
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Friedrich Gollwitzer (category Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross)
Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany who commanded the LIII Army Corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. With the outbreak of the First...
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Operation Star (category Battles and operations of World War II)
of World War II begun on 2 February 1943. The attack was the responsibility of the Voronezh Front under the command of Filipp Golikov and a part of the...
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The Battle of Kursk was a major World War II Eastern Front battle between the forces of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union near Kursk in southwestern Russia...
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The Battle of Stalingrad (17 July 1942 – 2 February 1943) was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II, beginning when Nazi Germany and its...
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troops and forces of the Bryansk Front defending the Voronezh region, being designated as Voronezh Front on 7 July 1942. By the time of Operation Blau,...
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Operation Little Saturn (redirect from Battle of Arbuzovka)
Front of World War II that led to battles in Don and Chir rivers region in German-occupied Soviet Union territory in 16–30 December 1942. The success of Operation...
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the Soviet high command, ordered the Central Front and the Voronezh Front to force crossings of the Dnieper. When this was unsuccessful in October, the effort...
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siege of Sevastopol, also known as the defence of Sevastopol (Russian: Оборона Севастополя, romanized: Oborona Sevastopolya) or the Battle of Sevastopol...
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