Operation Little Saturn
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Operation Little Saturn was a Red Army offensive on the Eastern Front of World War II that led to battles in Don and Chir rivers region in German-occupied Soviet Union territory from 16 to 30 December
Soviet forces during Operation Little Saturn in December 1942
A column of Italian prisoners of war captured during Operation Little Saturn
Case Blue
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Case Blue was the Wehrmacht's plan for the 1942 summer offensive in southern Russia between 28 June and 24 November 1942, during World War II. The objective was to capture the oil fields of Baku, Groz
Operation Little Saturn
…against advancing Soviet armies around the city of Kharkov, resulting in the Second Battle of Kharkov; this would ultimately be expanded on 28 June into Case Blue, which aimed to capture the Caucasus oil fields. By 6 July, General Hermann Hoth's Fourth Panzer Army had taken the city of Voronezh, threatening to…
German troops take cover behind a knocked out T-70 light tank and beside a Sd.Kfz. 250 halftrack, summer 1942
Waffen-SS infantry and armor advancing, Summer 1942
Maximillian von Weichs
Alexander Löhr