Operation Edelweiss

Quand

23 juil. 1942 – 18 nov. 1942

Type

Opération militaire

Coordonnées

43.30° N, 40.81° E

Description

1942 military operation

Placé à : coordinates of its German Wikipedia article.

Series of Axis and Soviet operations on the Eastern Front of WWII

The Battle of the Caucasus was a series of Axis and Soviet operations in the Caucasus as part of the Eastern Front of World War II. On 25 July 1942, German troops captured Rostov-on-Don, opening the Caucasus region of the southern Soviet Union to the Germans and threatening the oil fields beyond at Maykop, Grozny, and ultimately Baku.

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