Schematic plan · World War II

Battle of Targul Frumos

1 May 1944
Soviet Union
Victory for Germany

A schematic plan, generated from the statistics of the CAA Database of Battles: the armies' size and width, the hours of fighting, the plan of attack and the outcome are as recorded; the ground and the positions are not.

USSR (USSR Army, 35,170 men under unrecorded commanders) attacked Germany (Ger Div, 13,725 men under unrecorded commanders) in Soviet Union. The CAA Database of Battles records 12 hours of fighting on a front of 19 km, a frontal attack against delaying action, and that Germany held. Losses: USSR unknown, Germany unknown.

This plan is generated from those figures. It shows the shape of the battle the database describes: the size and width of the armies, the plan of attack and the outcome. It does not show where the units actually stood.

The armies

USSR

Unit	Arm	Men
USSR left wing	Infantry	7,949
USSR centre	Infantry	10,598
USSR right wing	Infantry	7,949
USSR reserve	Infantry	6,624
USSR armour (410 tanks)	Armour	2,050
USSR command	Commander	—
In this plan		35,170

Germany

Unit	Arm	Men
Germany left wing	Infantry	3,102
Germany centre	Infantry	4,136
Germany right wing	Infantry	3,102
Germany reserve	Infantry	2,585
Germany armour (160 tanks)	Armour	800
Germany command	Commander	—
In this plan		13,725

What the sources report

	USSR	Germany
Strength, this plan	35,170	13,725
Losses, this plan	unknown	unknown

In the CAA Database of Battles

CDB90 no. 637, “Targul Frumos”, compiled for the US Army to study what decides battles. These are the figures a what-if engine can be calibrated against.

Fighting: 12 hours
Winner: the defender
Terrain: Flat, Bare
Weather: Wet, Light precipitation, Temperate, Spring, Temperate
Defender’s posture: Delaying action
Front width: 19 km (attacker)

Force	Strength	Losses	Horse	Guns	Plan and outcome
USSRattacker	35,170	—	0	—	Frontal attack; Repulse
Germanydefender	13,725	—	0	—	Stalemate

Attacker’s advantages none recorded

CDB90 (US Army Concepts Analysis Agency, 1990), tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold; data under ODC-BY 1.0.

Notes

On this reconstruction

Generated automatically from the statistics in CDB90. Frontages, depths, distances, the order of events and the terrain are schematic: they follow the recorded strengths, front widths, hours of fighting, tactical plan and outcome, not maps or accounts of the battle. The sources give no hours; the timing is conjectural.

Sources

US Army Concepts Analysis Agency; tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold, CAA Database of Battles (CDB90), no. 637 · ODC-BY-1.0Strengths, losses, front widths, hours of fighting, tactics and outcome.

Facts gathered from Wikidata (CC0), Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Wikimedia Commons (licence per file); the plan and its text are timeastra’s own.