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[edit] Army Group B

Army Group B (2nd formation) was again formed during June 1942 in the ongoing campaign to reach the

[edit] Subordinated units

Volga river and the Caspian sea.

Battle for Voronezh in June and July 1942.

[edit] Volga Campaign

28 June to 18 November 1942

Operation Winter Storm (Unternehmen Wintergewitter) commenced on 12 December 1942

Kharkov offensive operation 16 February 1943–15 March 1943 (aka 3rd Battle of Kharkov)

[edit] Army Group Don

On 21 November 1942 the 11th Army was used to create Army Group Don between the Army Groups A and B.

• 6th Army (from October ?)

Battle of Stalingrad between 21 August 1942 and 2 February 1943 or 19 November 42 to 2 February 43

Operation Uranus launched on 19 November 1942

Operation Little Saturn from December 1942 to February 1943.

[edit] Don Campaign

Crossing of the Don

Advance to Elista

[edit] Army Group A

Between August and 7 July 1942 Army Group A (2nd formation) (FM List)as reformed for conducting operations in Crimea, Caucasus direction and the southern course of the Don river in the ongoing campaign to reach the Caucasus mountains. FM List

• 17 A – Ruoff, Yeisk, Novorossiysk, Kropotkin – Tuapse, Armovir – Maikop, eastern Black sea coast
• 1PzA – von Kleist, Caspian coast, Stavropol – Georgievsk - Mozdok, Sukhumy
• Romanian 3rd Army – Dumitrescu, Ulan Erge

[edit] Subordinated units

[edit] Caucasus Campaign

Caucasus campaign or Operation Edelweiss 23 July 1942 August 1942 to October 1943 or 28 June to 31 December 1942? In February of 1943 after the destruction of the 6th Army in Stalingrad the Army Groups B and Don (formerly 11. Army) were combined as the Army Group South again. Its new composition in the spring of 1943 became:

[edit] Kuban offensive operation

2 January to 9 October 1943
12. February 1943 to 30. March 1944 Generalfeldmarschall Erich von Manstein March 1943

• 1. Panzerarmee,
• 4. Panzerarmee,
• Armeeabteilung Hollidt,
• Armeeabteilung Kempf

Malaya Zemlya Feb 1943

[edit] Army Group South

In the Spring of 1943 following the failure of Operation Citadel Army Group South was again recreated from the Army Group Don and incorporated units of Army Group B. A new Army Group B became a major formation in Italy under Rommel.

The Army Group South carried the main brunt of the combat on the Eastern Front from the beginning of 1943 until spring 1944. After the counter-attack by the 1. Panzer Army from the Caucasus to the Ukraine in February/March 1943 the front stabilized; initiative was lost to the Red Army due to the failed Citadel offensive at the Kursk bulge in July 1943. In September, Axis troops withdrew from the Donets Basin industrial area, and in November 1943, an attempt to hold the East Wall on the Dnepr river line failed.

[edit] Operation Citadel

March 1943

• 1. Panzerarmee,
• 4. Panzerarmee,
• 8. Armee

April 1943

• 1. Panzerarmee,
• 4. Panzerarmee,
• 6. Armee,
• Armeeabteilung Kempf

Operation Citadel German “Kursk” 4 July – 20 July 1943 July 1943

• Armee-Abteilung Kempf,
• 6. Armee,
• 8. Armee,
• 1. Panzerarmee

[edit] Belgorod offensive operation

5 July to 14 July 1943

Belgorod offensive operation 5 July to 14 July 1943

Izum-Barvenkovo defensive battles 17 to 27 July 1943

[edit] Donets – Dnepr Campaign

17 July to 31 December 1943

Wotan Line defence

Battle of the Dnieper Aug – Dec 1943

[edit] Dnepropetrovsk defence operation

Battle for Dnepropetrovsk

September 1943

• 1. Panzerarmee,
• 4. Panzerarmee,
• 6. Armee,
• 8. Armee

October 1943

• 1. Panzerarmee,
• 4. Panzerarmee,
• 8. Armee

November 1943

• 1. Panzerarmee,
• 4. Panzerarmee,
• 8. Armee,
• Wehrmachts-Befehlshaber Ukraine

Battle of Kiev from November 1943 until December 1943

Kerch-Eltigen Operation in November 1943

On 4 April 1944, Army Group South was re-designated Army Group North Ukraine. Army Group North Ukraine existed from 4 April to 28 September.

[edit] Army Group A

January 1944 1. Panzerarmee, 4. Panzerarmee, 6. Armee, 8. Armee, Wehrmachts-Befehlshaber Ukraine February 1944 1. Panzerarmee, 4. Panzerarmee, 6. Armee, 8. Armee

In April 1944 Army Group A is renamed Army Group South Ukraine

23. September 1944 to 28. December 1944 Generaloberst Johannes Frießner

Kamenets-Podolsky breakout March to April 1944

[edit] Army Group North Ukraine

[edit] Hungarian campaign

Retreat into Hungary September 1944

On 28 September 1944 the Army Group is renamed again as the Army Group North Ukraine in East Hungary and absorbs Army Group South UkraineUntil March 1945 it fought in west Hungary and retreated into Austria with end the Second World War.

In October 1944 again renamed South Ukraine with Friessner in command October 1944

• 3. Hungarian Armee,
• 6. Armee,
• Armeegruppe Wöhler

Renamed as Army Group South again.

Battle of Debrecen October 1944

Budapest Offensive from 29 October 1944 until 13 February 1945.

Defence of Budapest

November 1944

• 2. Hungarian Armee,
• Armeegruppe Fretter-Pico,
• Armeegruppe Wöhler

28 December 1944 to 25 March 1945 General der Infanterie Otto Wöhler December 1944

• 3. Hungarian Armee
• 6. Armee,
• Armeegruppe Wöhler

[edit] Army Group South Ukraine

Until April 1944 Army Group A fought with heavy losses, but remained cohesive until withdrawing into Galicia. In September 1944 Army Group South Ukraine is renamed Army Group South again.

Donbas Basin retreat 13 August to 22 September 1944

Vatutino breakout

Zaporozhye breakout

[edit] Crimea retreat

Crimean withdrawal (Melitopol - Kherson) March 1944

Battle of the Crimea during April and May of 1944

Sevastopol evacuaton by 9 May 1944

[edit] Retreat in Ukraine

[edit] Bug line defensive operations

[edit] Dnestr line defensive operations

[edit] Romanian campaign

• 4th Romanian Army
• 8th Army
• 6th Army (2nd formation)
• 3rd Romanian Army (remnants)

Yassy-Kishinev operation late August, 1944

Retreat into Romania

Carpathan defensive operations

Defence of Bucharest