Battle of Voronezh (1942)

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The Battle of Voronezh was a battle on the Eastern Front

of World War II, fought in and around the strategically
important city of Voronezh on the Don river, 450 km
(280 mi) south of Moscow, from 28 June-24 July 1942, as
opening move of the German summer oensive in 1942.

[1] http://militera.lib.ru/research/beshanov_vv/16.html
[2] http://militera.lib.ru/research/beshanov_vv/16.html
[3] Glantz (1995), p. 295

The city was defended by the troops of the 40th Army

as part of the Valuiki-Rossosh Defensive Operation (28
June-24 July 1942) of the General of Army Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin's Southwestern Front.[4]

[4] Vatutin was born in the Voronezh area.

[5] Fuller, J.F.C. A Military History of the World: Vol III, p.
522 ISBN 0-306-80306-2

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Glantz, David M. & House, Jonathan (1995), When
Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler,
Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas,
ISBN 0-7006-0899-0.

A Soviet KV-1 heavy tank destroyed near Voronezh (1942)

The German assault was conducted by the element of the

4th Panzer Armys forces of Army Group South under
commanded by General Hermann Hoth, who was under
strict instructions not to get bogged down in street-tostreet ghting.
The armored units of the 4th Panzer Army partly captured Voronezh on 6 July by occupying the western riverbank suburbs, however German troops were subjected to
a Red Army counter-attack. The 4th Panzer Army was
to be followed by the Sixth Army, and when Voronezh
was occupied the former was to wheel south-eastward and
move down the right bank of the Don towards Stalingrad
as part of Operation Blau.[5] It took two days for infantry
divisions from the Army Group South to reach Voronezh
to hold the line and free the Panzer troops; Adolf Hitler
later came to believe that these two days, when combined
with other avoidable delays on the drive south, allowed
Marshal Semyon Timoshenko to reinforce the forces in
Stalingrad before the 4th Panzer Army could arrive to allow taking of Stalingrad.
The Soviets recaptured the city in 1943.
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