Case Blue (German: Fall Blau) was the Wehrmacht's plan for the 1942 strategic summer offensive in southern Russia between 28 June and 24 November 1942...

The 60th Infantry Division was formed in late 1939, from Gruppe Eberhardt, a collection of SA units that had been engaged in the capture of Danzig during...

briefly with the 16th Army. During 1942 the Wehrmacht commenced "Operation Fall Blau" and switched the axis of their offensive from Moscow and attacked southward...

capitulation of Soviet forces on 4 July. For the German summer offensive, Fall Blau, the Luftwaffe had concentrated 1,800 aircraft into Luftflotte 4 making...

Look up Blau or blau in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Blau is the German and Catalan word for the color blue. It may refer to: Blau (Danube), a tributary...

offensive against Western Europe. Fall Grün (Ireland) ("Case Green") (1940) – planned invasion of Ireland. Fall Blau ("Case Blue") (1942) – summer offensive...

XXXXVIII Panzer Corps in early summer 1942. Thereafter the corps joined the Fall Blau offensive towards Stalingrad under Army Group B. During the Battle of...

development of "Clobber Colleges" for the training of fighter pilots in fall 1944, was a decisive element in Allied countermeasures against the Jagdverbände...

fields in the Caucasus. German forces invaded the Caucasus under the Fall Blau ("Case Blue") plan on 28 June 1942. The Soviets successfully halted further...

military action in the east (Fall Blau). Fall Blau ("Case Blue") (1935) — overview of defense planning in tandem with Fall Rot. Fall Otto ("Case Otto") (1937)...

transferred to Army Group South to take part in the summer offensive Fall Blau ("Case Blue"), and was ultimately caught up in the Battle of Stalingrad...

actions by armed forces. Fall Blau 1935 - German defence planning on the eastern border, simultaneously with Fall Rot Fall Rot 1935 - German defence...

evacuation of the German forces across the Kerch Strait to Crimea. Case Blue (Fall Blau), launched 28 June 1942, saw Army Group South divided into two Army Groups...

Grozny with Maikop were the main strategic objectives of the German Fall Blau operation in summer of 1942 (See Battle of the Caucasus). The failure...

The Battle of Rostov was an episode of the Fall Blau operation, which lasted five days and pitted the 56th Soviet Army, in retreat, against the 17th German...

Bock. Stumme commanded the capture of Mozhaisk. He then participated in Fall Blau (Case Blue) to lead the advance of the 6th Army with his renamed XXXX...

Group A, the formation tasked with capturing the Caucasus as a part of Fall Blau. In mid-1943, following the loss of the 6th Army at the Battle of Stalingrad...

was initially named Fall Blau (Case Blue), which is the common name used for the whole offensive. The name was changed from Blau to Braunschweig on 30...

division was assigned to XXXXVIII Panzer Corps during the opening phases of Fall Blau, the Wehrmacht's 1942 strategic summer offensive in southern Russia. During...

spring rasputitsa (seasonal mud) had cleared, the division joined in Fall Blau, participating in the fighting to retake Rostov-on-Don, which fell in...

vital Soviet oil fields there. The planned summer offensive, code-named Fall Blau (Case Blue), was to include the German 6th, 17th, 4th Panzer and 1st Panzer...

In an attempt to resolve the shortage, in June 1942 Germany launched Fall Blau ("Case Blue"), an offensive against the Caucasian oilfields. The Red Army...

itself to the Axis camp. Battle of the Caucasus Operation Barbarossa Fall Blau Wehrbauer De Cordier (2010), The Fedayeen of the Reich: Muslims, Islam...

the Battle of Smolensk, and then on to Vyazma and Bryansk. In 1942, for Fall Blau, Weichs was assigned to lead the newly created Army Group B. Army Group...

and Baku. Baku then became the primary strategic goal of Hitler's 1942 Fall Blau offensive. This offensive was unsuccessful, however. The German army reached...

resolve their persistent shortage of oil, the Wehrmacht had launched Fall Blau (Case Blue), a massive offensive aimed against the Caucasian oilfields...

with the Artillerie-Abteilungen 680, 731, 740 and 800. A year later, for Fall Blau, they served with Artillerie-Abteilungen 511, 620, 680, 767 and 800. Designed...

Ural Mountains. As the initial operation stalled, the Axis launched the Fall Blau offensive in 1942 to take control of strategic Caucasian oil fields and...

holding Sevastopol in the Crimea. The operation became known as Operation Fall Blau. The Luftwaffe assisted with the capture of Sevastopol by subjecting Soviet...

his actions in the Battle of Kiev. Hube then led the division during Fall Blau and the Battle of Stalingrad. On 16 September 1942, Hube was given command...