The Romanian Third Army was a field army that fought as part of the German Army Group B during World War II. It along with the Romanian Fourth Army bore the brunt of the Soviet Operation Uranus which saw the German Sixth Army encircled and destroyed during the Battle of Stalingrad. Army Group B was the name of three different German Army Groups that saw action during World War II. The first was involved in the western campaign in 1940 in Belgium and the Netherlands which was to be aimed to conquer the Maas bridges after the German airborne actions in... Combatants Allied Powers: United Kingdom France Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Axis Powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Charles de Gaulle Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33... Im about to write this article in the memory of my grand father who fought against the russians in 1944. ... Soviet redirects here. ... The eastern front at the time of Operation Uranus. ... The 6. ... Combatants Germany Italy Romania Hungary Croatia Soviet Union Commanders Friedrich Paulus # Erich von Manstein Hermann Hoth Vasiliy Chuikov Aleksandr Vasilyevskiy Georgy Zhukov Semyon Timoshenko Strength German Sixth Army German Fourth Panzer Army Romanian Third Army Romanian Fourth Army Hungarian Second Army Italian Eighth Army Unknown number of Germans Unknown number...

See also

• Petre Dumitrescu - General and Commander of Third Army
• Romanian Armies in the Battle of Stalingrad

Petre Dumitrescu Petre Dumitrescu (February 18, 1882 - January 15, 1950) was a Romanian general during World War II, who led the Romanian Third Army on its campaign against the Soviet Union in the southwest. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

External links

• Third Army in Crimea - 1941
• Third Army in the Caucaus - 1942