The 3rd Army was a field army of the Romanian Land Forces active from 1916 to the 1990s. It fought as part of the German Army Group B during World War II, in Ukraine, the Crimea, and the Caucasus. Gen
Romanian soldiers at Stalingrad, 1942
General Alexandru Averescu
General Petre Dumitrescu in 1944
Romanian soldier at Stalingrad
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 C
German tanks in formation in a Caucasus valley with infantry in the foreground, September 1942
German gebirgsjäger in the Caucasus, Winter 1942
Some 870,000 Soviet personnel were awarded this Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus" from 1 May 1944.
Red Army units enter the liberated city of Mozdok (January 1943).