Third Army (Romania)

Third Army (Romania)

The Romanian Third Army was a field army that fought as part of the German Army Group B during World War II, in Ukraine, Crimea, and the Caucasus.

Along with the Romanian Fourth Army, the Third Army bore the brunt of the Soviet Operation Uranus, which saw the German Sixth Army encircled and destroyed during the Battle of Stalingrad.

ee also

* Petre Dumitrescu - General and Commander of Third Army
* Romanian Armies in the Battle of Stalingrad
* Romania during World War II

External links

* [http://www.worldwar2.ro/operatii/?article=6 Third Army in Crimea - 1941]
* [http://www.worldwar2.ro/operatii/?article=11 Third Army in the Caucasus - 1942]


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