Second Battle of Kharkov

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Second Battle of Kharkov
Image:Eastern Front 1941-12 to 1942-05.png The Eastern Front at the time of the Second Battle of Kharkov
Conflict: World War II
Date: 9 May, 1942 - 28 May, 1942
Place: Kharkov, USSR
Outcome: Decisive German victory
Combatants
Germany	Soviet Union
Commanders
Friedrich Paulus	Semyon Timoshenko
Strength
1000 Tanks,1500 Aircraft, 300,000 Men	1300 Tanks,3000 Aircraft, 450,000 Men
Casualties
20,000	200,000 captured
Soviet-German War Barbarossa – Silberfuchs – Smolensk – Uman – 1st Kiev – Typhoon – 1st Rostov – Leningrad – Moscow – Sevastopol – 1st Rzhev-Vyazma – 2nd Kharkov – 1st Voronezh – Stalingrad – Velikiye Luki – Uranus – 2nd Rzhev-Sychevka – Saturn – 3rd Kharkov – Kursk – Belgorod – 4th Kharkov – Korsun – Narva – Hube's Pocket – Bagration – Lvov-Sandomierz – 2nd Kiev – Debrecen – Vistula-Oder – Balaton – Berlin – Halbe – Prague

The Second Battle of Kharkov, 9 - 28 May 1942, was an attempt by the Soviet Union to recapture the Ukrainian city of Kharkov from the Germans.

The attack failed; by the end of the month the Germans had regained all lost ground, and captured almost 200,000 Soviet prisoners as well. It was the first victory in the battlefield by General der Panzertruppen Friedrich Paulus, commander of the German Sixth Army. German losses were around 20,000.

The Second Battle of Kharkov was the prelude to "Operation Blue", aimed at the capture of Caucasus petroleum and destruction of Soviet forces at Southern front, but which ended with the Battle of Stalingrad, disastrous to Axis Powers.

See also: Third Battle of Kharkov