Battle of the Don River (1943)

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The Battle of the Don River (1943) was a major Eastern Front engagement during World War II in which Axis forces, including Hungarian troops, suffered devastating losses against the advancing Soviet Red Army along the Don River.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Front engagement
battle
belligerent Kingdom of Hungary
Nazi Germany
Soviet Union
cause Soviet counteroffensive after encirclement of German 6th Army at Stalingrad
characterizedBy Soviet breakthrough along the Don River
collapse of Hungarian Second Army
devastating Axis losses
commemoratedFor one of the greatest military disasters in Hungarian history
commemoratedIn Hungarian military history
conflict World War II
date January 1943
effect Axis retreat from the Don line
severe casualties for Hungarian forces
weakening of Axis allied armies on the Eastern Front
front Eastern Front
hasLocation Don River NERFINISHED
Soviet Union
southern sector of the Eastern Front
hasParticipant Axis powers
German Wehrmacht units
Hungarian 2nd Army
surface form: Hungarian Second Army

Hungary
Red Army
Soviet Union
hasSide Axis
surface form: Axis forces

Soviet forces
historicalRegion Soviet Voronezh Front
surface form: Voronezh Front area
militaryTheater Eastern Front of World War II
surface form: Soviet–German War
notableFor encirclement and destruction of Axis units along the Don
heavy winter conditions
opponent Hungarian forces
Red Army
surface form: Soviet Red Army
partOf Eastern Front of World War II
Soviet winter counteroffensives of 1942–1943
surface form: Soviet winter offensives of 1942–1943
precededBy Case Blue
relatedTo Battle of Stalingrad
Ostrogozhsk–Rossosh offensive
Voronezh–Kastornoye offensive
result Soviet victory
strategicOutcome Soviet advance westward from the Don River line
timePeriod winter 1942–1943

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Gusztáv Jány participantIn Battle of the Don River (1943)
Hungarian Army units sufferedHeavyLosses Battle of the Don River (1943)
this entity surface form: Second Hungarian Army on the Don River 1943