- Operation München
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Operation München Part of the Eastern Front of World War II 
Romanian cavalryman escorting Soviet prisonersDate July 2 to July 24, 1941 Location Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina Result Axis Victory Belligerents 
Soviet Union
Romania
GermanyCommanders and leaders Ivan Tyulenev
P. G. Ponedelin
Yakov Cherevichenko Nicolae Ciupercă
Petre Dumitrescu
Eugen Ritter von SchobertStrength 364,700 troops
1,750 aircraft 325,685 troops, 672 aircraft
5 divisions, 420 aircraftCasualties and losses Total: 17,893
8,519 killed/missing, 9,374 woundedTotal: 22,765
4,271 killed, 12,326 wounded, 6,168 missingBrest – Bialystok-Minsk – Raseiniai – Brody – Bessarabia – Smolensk – Uman – 1st Kiev – Tallinn – Yelnya – Odessa – Leningrad – 1st Kharkov – 1st Crimea – 1st Rostov – MoscowNaval warfare
- Baltic Sea
- Black Sea
- Arctic
1941
1942
- Battles of Rzhev
- Toropets and Kholm
- Demyansk
- Velikiye Luki
- Mars
- 2nd Kharkov
- Case Blue
- Stalingrad
1943
1944
- Dnieper and Carpathian
- Leningrad and Novgorod
- Narva
- Hube's Pocket
- Crimea
- Jassy-Kishinev
- Karelia
- Bagration
- Lvov and Sandomierz
- 2nd Jassy-Kishinev
- Baltics
- Debrecen
- Petsamo and Kirkenes
- Hungary
1945
As part of the Axis (1941–1944):
- München
- Uman
- Odessa
- Sevastopol
- Azov
- Blue
- Edelweiss
- Stalingrad
- Uranus
- Winter Storm
- Tidal Wave
- Lower Dnieper
- Dniepr–Carpathian
- 1st Jassy–Kishinev
- 2nd Jassy–Kishinev
As part of the Allies (1944–1945):
Operation München was the codename of a joint German-Romanian offensive in World War II, with the primary objective of re-capturing Bessarabia, ceded by Romania to the Soviet Union a year before. The operation concluded successfully after 24 days of fighting.
Axis formations involved included the Third Army, the Fourth Army, and the Eleventh Army.
References
Categories:- Battles involving Romania
- Operation Barbarossa
- Battles and operations of the Soviet–German War
- Military operations of World War II involving Germany
- Battles involving the Soviet Union
- 1941 in Romania
- 1941 in the Soviet Union
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