Battle of Voronezh (1942)
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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 city of Voronezh on the Don river, 450 km (280 mi) south of Moscow, from 28 June-24 July 1942, as opening move of the German summer offensive in 1942.
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Battle of Voronezh (1942) | |||||||
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Part of Case Blue in the Eastern Front of World War II | |||||||
The Eastern Front at the time of the Battle of Voronezh. (click to enlarge) | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Germany Hungary Romania Italy Slovakia | Soviet Union | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Fedor von Bock Maximilian von Weichs Wilhelm List Hermann Hoth Hans von Salmuth Friedrich Paulus Gusztáv Jány Ewald von Kleist Richard Ruoff |
Filipp Golikov Nikandr Chibisov Semyon Timoshenko Rodion Malinovsky Pavel Korzun [ru] Grigory Khalyuzin [ru] Nikolai Pukhov Mikhail Parsegov Fyodor Kharitonov Maksim Antoniuk Alexei Danilov [ru] Dmitry Ryabyshev Kirill Moskalenko Anton Lopatin Dmitry Nikishov [ru] Pyotr Kozlov Andrei Grechko Fyodor Kamkov [ru] Viktor Tsyganov Ilya Smirnov | ||||||
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975,000 | 1,300,000 | ||||||
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94,500 casualties including 19,000 KIA and MIA[1] |
568,347 200,000 killed and 80,000 captured[1] 197,825 wounded.[2] 568,347, thereof 370,522 killed or missing and 197 825 wounded.[3] |
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The battle was marked by heavy urban fighting, and ferocious street-fighting, showing what was to come at the Battle of Stalingrad.[4][5]