May 1942

Eastern Front

At noon the weather in the Crimea clears and the Germans resume their attack. With its armies crumbling, the Stavka instructs the Crimean Front to pull back its forces to the Tartar Ditch. Manstein quickly overcomes this position as he strives to complete the encirclement of the 44th and 51st Armies.

Field Marshal Halder estimates that since June 1941 the Ostheer has suffered 1,183,000 casualties.