battle, interwar and Second World War

German-Soviet air war 22 June 1941

Name: German-Soviet air war 22 June 1941
Location: Soviet Union, Russia

German-Soviet air war 22 June 1941 was a battle fought in 1941 at Soviet Union, in what is now Russia. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at Soviet Union. The recorded result: German victory.

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Fought1941

WhereSoviet Union, Russia65.000N, 90.000E, placed at the location, approximate

OutcomeGerman victory

BelligerentsSoviet UnionagainstNazi Germany

Record

Date	1941 (year precision)
Place	Soviet Union, Russia 65.000N, 90.000E
Kind	Battle, interwar and Second World War
Strength	Soviet Western Military Districts; Total: 10,451 combat aircraft; including 5,460 single-engine fighters	Total: 3,297 combat aircraft; including 975 single-engine fighters
Casualties and losses	22 June: >2,000 combat aircraft; 22–24 June; Official Soviet data: 3,922 combat aircraft; Independent researchers' estimates: unavailable	22 June; Official German combat losses: 35 aircraft; Independent researchers' estimates: 55 or 57 aircraft; 22–24 June; Official German data: 78 aircraft
Commanders	Pavel Zhigarev Aleksandr Novikov Fyodor Polynin	Hermann Göring Hans Jeschonnek Albert Kesselring Alexander Löhr Alfred Keller Hans-Jürgen Stumpff

Placed at Soviet Union; the exact site is not recorded. with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Battle of Irmen 1598, 1235 km SW
Battle of Barnaul 1918, 1340 km S
Battle of the Irtysh 1585, 1439 km SW
Battle of Chakirmaut 1204, 1780 km S

Elsewhere in 1941

Attack on Pearl Harbor United States
Siege of Leningrad Soviet Union
Battle of Moscow Soviet Union
Battle of Crete Greece
Battle of Kiev Ukraine

German-Soviet air war 22 June 1941 is one of 2,997 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 350 in present-day Russia.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q124486006, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article German-Soviet air war 22 June 1941, revision 1376982394, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.