Romanian armies in the Battle of Stalingrad

Battle of Stalingrad from Romania side
Part of Battle of Stalingrad
Romanian troops in the Don-Stalingrad area, 1942
Date 19 November 1942 – 2 February 1943 Location Stalingrad, USSR Result Soviet victory
Belligerents
Romania  Germany  Hungary  Italy  Croatia	Soviet Union
Commanders and leaders
Petre Dumitrescu Constantin Constantinescu-Claps	Georgy Zhukov
Units involved
North: 3rd Army South: 4th Army	North: 1st Guards Army 5th Tank Army 21st Army 65th Army 3rd Guards Army South: 51st Army 57th Army
Strength
North: 171,256 men 140 tanks South: 75,380 men	448,631+ men[1][2] 10,819 artillery pieces 1,183 tanks 790 aircraft
Casualties and losses
158,854 casualties 100 tanks	Heavy[3] 127+ tanks

Two Romanian armies, the Third and the Fourth, were involved in the Battle of Stalingrad, helping to protect the northern and southern flanks respectively, of the German 6th Army as it tried to conquer the city of Stalingrad defended by the Red Army in mid to late 1942. Underpowered and poorly equipped, these forces were unable to stop the Soviet November offensive (Operation Uranus), which punched through both flanks and left the 6th Army encircled in Stalingrad. The Romanians suffered enormous losses, which effectively ended their offensive capability on the Eastern Front for the remainder of the war.^[4]