Army Group South Ukraine (, ) was a joint German-Romanian group on the Eastern Front during World War II.
Army Group South Ukraine was created on 5 April 1944 by renaming Army Group A. This army group saw action during the Jassy-Kishinev Operation and after taking heavy casualties was redesignated Army Group South (Heeresgruppe Süd) at midnight on 23 September 1944.
Geographically, Army Group South Ukraine – headquartered at Slănic-Moldova – held 392 miles (680 km) of front, of which 160 were held by Romanians.Samuel W. Mitcham Jr., Stackpole Books, Jan 23, 2007, The German Defeat in the East: 1944-45, pp. 171-172 Its operational area covered all of Eastern Romania, from a line 40 km (25 miles) east of Bucharest.Mark Axworthy, London: Arms and Armour, 1995, Third Axis, Fourth Ally: Romanian Armed Forces in the European War, 1941–1945, p. 156
Order of Battle, 15 August 1944 (Army HQ) Sources:Samuel W. Mitcham Jr., Stackpole Books, Jan 23, 2007, The German Defeat in the East: 1944-45, pp. 164-165Samuel W. Mitcham Jr., Stackpole Books, Jan 23, 2007, The German Defeat in the East: 1944-45, p. 172 Armeegruppe Dumitrescu – General Petre Dumitrescu Romanian Third Army – General Petre Dumitrescu (HQ – Bolgrad) Sixth Army – General der Artillerie Maximilian Fretter-Pico (HQ – Tarutino) Armeegruppe Wohler – General der Infanterie Otto Wohler Eighth Army – General der Infanterie Otto Wohler (HQ – Roman) Romanian Fourth Army – General Gheorghe Avramescu (HQ – Bacău)
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