Operation "Seydlitz"

Operation "Seydlitz"
Part of the Eastern Front of World War II
DateJuly 1942
Location
Result German victory
Belligerents
Soviet Union  Germany
Commanders and leaders
Casualties and losses
4,386 killed
8,020 wounded
47,072 missing
810 killed
3,087 wounded
84 missing

Operation Seydlitz was of an auxiliary nature and was aimed at liberating the zone of the German 9th Army from the penetration of the Soviet 39th Army of Lieutenant General Ivan Maslennikov and the 11th Cavalry Corps of Colonel S. Sokolov.