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Operation Typhoon

Name: Operation Typhoon – Germany factsheet records
Creator: World History Database

Germany · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1941Date range

3Named people

2Places

Chronological records

1941

Fedor von BockSeptember 1941

Moscow · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Ordered by Hitler to invade Moscow, 200 miles away

Adolf HitlerSeptember 1941

Moscow · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Orders Operation Typhoon, an attack on Moscow

Otto Moritz Walter Model8 December 1941

Moscow · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Reaches within 20km of Moscow before the Red Army force Model back

Otto Moritz Walter ModelDecember 1941

Kalinin · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Model must fight to keep the bridgeheads on the Volga near Kalinin

Otto Moritz Walter ModelDecember 1941

Moscow · Warfare / World War, 2nd

The assault on Moscow is resumed. Model captures the bridges of the Moscow reservoirs in support of the 4th Army

Names involved

Adolf HitlerFedor von BockOtto Moritz Walter Model

Provenance

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