Battle of Odessa (1941)

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Battle of Odessa
Part of The Eastern Front of World War II
Date 8 August 1941 to 16 October 1941 Location Odessa region, USSR Result Romanian victory
Combatants
Axis	Soviet Union
Commanders
Lt. gen. Nicolae Ciuperca	?
Strength
340.223 men	initially 34.500 men 240 artillery pieces
Casualties
92.545 men(17.729 dead, 63.345 wounded and 11.471 missing)	41.268 men(16.578 dead and missing and 24.690 wounded)

Eastern Front
Barbarossa – Finland – Leningrad and Baltics – Crimea and Caucasus – Moscow – 1st Rzhev-Vyazma – 2nd Kharkov – Stalingrad – Velikiye Luki – 2nd Rzhev-Sychevka – Kursk – 2nd Smolensk – Dnieper – 2nd Kiev – Korsun – Hube's Pocket – Belorussia – Lvov-Sandomierz – Balkans – Hungary – Vistula-Oder – Königsberg – Berlin – Prague

Operation Barbarossa
Bialystok-Minsk – Smolensk – Uman – 1st Kiev – Yelnya – Odessa – Leningrad – 1st Crimea – 1st Rostov

The Battle of Odessa was part of the Soviet-German War in 1941. It was mainly conducted by Romanian forces which were allied to the Germans. Due to the heavy resistance of the Red Army forces in Odessa, it took the Romanian army four attempts to take the city, and it suffered heavy losses. The Red Army forces were finally evacuated in 14 October 1941.

[edit] External links

• Dallin, Alexander (1998). Odessa, 1941–1944: A Case Study of Soviet Territory Under Foreign Rule. Iasi-Oxford-Portland: Center for Romanian Studies. ISBN 973-98391-1-8, hardcover. Complete book available online.
• History of Odessa, 1941-1944. 2odessa.com. Retrieved on 2006-07-30.