Romanian 4th Army

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field army military unit

The Romanian 4th Army was a major field army of Romania that fought on the Eastern Front in World War II as part of the Axis forces, suffering heavy losses during the Soviet counteroffensives.

Aliases (1)

Romanian 4th Army remnants ×1

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	field army → military unit →
alliance	Axis Powers →
branch	land forces →
composition	Romanian cavalry divisions → Romanian infantry divisions → artillery units →
conflict	World War II →
cooperatedWith	German 6th Army → Romanian 3rd Army →
country	Kingdom of Romania →
disbanded	after World War II →
engagement	Battle of Odessa (1941) → Battle of Stalingrad → Battle of the Don Bend → Crimean campaign → Operation Little Saturn → Operation Uranus → Siege of Sevastopol (1941–1942) →
garrison	Romania →
historicalSignificance	major Romanian contribution to Axis operations on the Eastern Front → suffered catastrophic losses that weakened Romania’s military capability →
languageOfCommand	Romanian →
laterRole	operations against German forces after Romania’s 1944 armistice → participation in Allied advance into Central Europe →
notableCommander	Constantin Constantinescu-Claps → Gheorghe Avramescu → Nicolae Ciupercă →
notableEvent	Soviet counteroffensives on the Eastern Front →
notableLoss	encirclement during Operation Uranus → high casualties in the Stalingrad sector →
notableOperation	invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 →
opponent	Red Army → Soviet Union →
partOf	Romanian Army →
role	defensive operations during Soviet counteroffensives → offensive operations against the Soviet Union →
side	Allies (after August 1944) → Axis (until August 1944) →
subordinateTo	German Army Group B → German Army Group Don → German Army Group South →
suffered	heavy losses →
supportedBy	German Wehrmacht →
theaterOfOperations	Eastern Front →
timePeriod	1941–1944 →

Referenced by (7)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Battle of Stalingrad → Battle of the Don Bend →	involvedMilitaryUnit
Army Group Don ("Romanian 4th Army remnants") → Army Group South →	subordinateUnit
Siege of Sevastopol (1941–1942) →	attacker
Battle of Odessa (1941) →	offensiveForce
Operation Uranus →	opponentUnit