Last man Standing (Blitzkrieg - Second World War in Fight, First Edition, No. 19)

After the Red Army captured the Crimea in May 1944 and the Soviet spring offensive ended, the German Wehrmacht succeeded in stabilising the remaining Eastern front. Army Group South Ukraine, with the 6th and 8th Army, protected the entrance to the lower Danube and the Balkan Peninsula at the lower Dniester River, westwards past Jassy, and into the Carpathian Mountains. At Colomea it was joined by ...