Ostrogozhsk–Rossosh Offensive

Ostrogozhsk–Rossosh Offensive
Part of the Eastern Front of World War II
DateJanuary 13[1]–27, 1943
LocationOstrogozhsk, Rossosh
Result Soviet victory
Belligerents
Hungary Hungary
Italy Italy		 Soviet Union Soviet Union
Commanders and leaders
Hungary Gusztáv Jány
Italy Italo Gariboldi		 Soviet Union Pavel Rybalko
Strength
Unknown Unknown
Casualties and losses

Russian sources
123,000 killed and captured,
1,400 artillery pieces,
262 tanks[2]

Ignac Romsics
40,000 KIA, 35,000 WIA, 60,000 POW. (Hungarian only)[3]

Krisztián Ungváry

42,000 KIA or frozen
26,000 POW
at least 28,044 WIA (Hungarian only)[4]		 33,331 casualties[5]

The Ostrogozhsk–Rossosh Offensive (Russian: Острогожско-Россошанская операция) was an offensive of the Voronezh Front on the Eastern Front of World War II against the Hungarian 2nd Army and partially Italian 8th Army. The offensive is better known as part of Operation Little Saturn, made in support of the Stalingrad encirclement. The offensive was supported from the south by the right flank of the Soviet 6th Army and the 3rd Guards Tank Army of Pavel Rybalko.

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Some sources give January 12 as the start of the operation. On this day the combat reconnaissance ("probing") was carried out by Soviet advance guard troops. The major Soviet forces were put into action on the next day.
  2. ↑ 9 мая 1945 года - Воспоминания, Составители: В. Д. Вознесенский Д. Б. Рубежный. Под редакцией члена-корреспондента АН СССР А. М. Самсонова.— М.: Наука, 1970 - К. С. Москаленко, В боях рождалась Победа
  3. ↑ Ignac Romsics: The history of Hungary in the 20th century, 255p., Osiris, 1999.; ISBN 963 379 548 6
  4. ↑ Krisztián Ungváry: The Hungarian Army in the Second World War,196p., Osiris, 2005.;ISBN 963 389 685 1
  5. ↑ Г. Ф. Кривошеев, Россия и СССР в войнах XX века - Потери вооруженных сил - Статистическое исследование, Москва, Олма, 2001

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