Kamenets–Podolsky pocket
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The Battle of the Kamenets–Podolsky pocket was part of the larger Soviet Proskurov–Chernovtsy offensive, whose main goal was to envelop the Wehrmacht's 1st Panzer Army of Army Group South. The envelopment occurred in late March 1944 on the Eastern Front during the Dnieper–Carpathian offensive. It was the biggest and most important operation of the Dnieper–Carpathian offensive.
Eastern Front, December 1943 – April 1944
A group of German soldiers in the Ukrainian village, March 1944.
Raupenschlepper Ost prime mover attempts to tow a 150-mm heavy field howitzer sFH 18 in conditions of rasputitsa, March 1944. At least 220 of them will be lost in the pocket.
T-34 tanks, with tank riders on them, in the Ukrainian village, spring 1944.
Army Group South
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Army Group South was the name of one of three German Army Groups during World War II.
Briefing at the headquarters of Army Group South at Poltava on 1 June 1942
Soldiers of the Army Group South crossing the Soviet border in Ukraine during Operation Barbarossa
Image: Bundesarchiv Bild 183 S37772, Gerd v. Rundstedt
Image: Bundesarchiv Bild 183 S37772, Gerd v. Rundstedt