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Case Blue (German: Fall Blau), later renamed Operation Braunschweig, was the German Armed Forces' (Wehrmacht) name for its plan for the 1942 strategic summer offensive in southern Russia between 28 June and 24 November 1942.The operation was a continuation of the previous year's Operation Barbarossa, intended to knock the Soviet Union out of the war, and involved a two-pronged attack against the oil fields of Baku as well as an advance in the direction of Stalingrad along the Volga River, to cover the flanks of the advance towards Baku.

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  • Case Blue (German: Fall Blau), later renamed Operation Braunschweig, was the German Armed Forces' (Wehrmacht) name for its plan for the 1942 strategic summer offensive in southern Russia between 28 June and 24 November 1942.The operation was a continuation of the previous year's Operation Barbarossa, intended to knock the Soviet Union out of the war, and involved a two-pronged attack against the oil fields of Baku as well as an advance in the direction of Stalingrad along the Volga River, to cover the flanks of the advance towards Baku.
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  • Case Blue — German summer offensive of 1942
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  • 1,013,000
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  • Croatia
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  • Strategic Axis failure
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  • 1,900 tanks
  • 1 million Germans
  • 1,000,000 reserve
  • 1,300,000
  • 1,610 aircraft
  • 1,700,000 men
  • 3,720 tanks
  • 300,000 German Allies
  • Initially: 2,700,000
  • ~ 1,671 aircraft
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