Operation Mars
Operation Mars was a
World War II strategic offensive launched in the winter of
1942 by
Soviet forces against a
German salient in the vicinity of
Moscow. Though in fact a more important offensive in
STAVKA planning than the near-simulataneous
Operation Uranus, today Operation Mars is virtually unknown, thanks largely to Soviet efforts to expunge this disastrous defeat from historical accounts of East Front fighting.
Casualties
- Soviet: 500,000 men, 1700 tanks
- German: 40,000 men
Resources
- Glantz, David M. Zhukov's Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942 (1999). ISBN 070060944X.
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