Battle of Crimea (1941)

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Eastern Front
Barbarossa – Baltic Sea – Finland – Leningrad and Baltics – Crimea and Caucasus – Moscow – 1st Rzhev-Vyazma – 2nd Kharkov – Stalingrad – Velikiye Luki – 2nd Rzhev-Sychevka – Kursk – 2nd Smolensk – Dnieper – 2nd Kiev – Korsun – Hube's Pocket – Belorussia – Lvov-Sandomierz – Balkans – Hungary – Vistula-Oder – Königsberg – Berlin – Prague

Crimea and Caucasus
1st Crimea – Kerch Peninsula – Adzhimushkay – Sevastopol – Caucasus – Kuban Bridgehead – 2nd Crimea

Crimea was the scene of some of the most bloody battles on the Eastern Front in World War II. The Germans suffered heavy casualties as they tried to advance through the isthmus linking the Crimean peninsula to the mainland at Perekop, in the summer of 1941.

Once the Germans broke through, they occupied most of Crimea, with the exception of the city of Sevastopol (given the title of Hero City later on). Sevastopol held out 250 days from October 30, 1941 until July 4, 1942, when the Germans finally captured the city. In 1944, Sevastopol was recaptured by Soviet troops.

Troops from the Romanian Third Army and Fourth Army were heavily involved in the fighting.