Military Campaign during the Spanish Civil War in 1938
Aragon Offensive
Part of the Spanish Civil War
Trenches of the Civil War in Castejón del Puente, Somontano de Barbastro, Aragón.
Date
March 7, 1938 – April 19, 1938
Location
Northeastern Spain
Result
Nationalist victory
Belligerents
Spanish Republic International Brigades CNT-FAI
Nationalist Spain CTV Condor Legion
Commanders and leaders
Vicente Rojo Lluch Sebastián Pozas Juan Perea Enrique Líster Valentín González Karol Świerczewski Robert H. Merriman †
Fidel Dávila Arrondo Juan Vigón Juan Yagüe Rafael García Valiño José Solchaga Antonio Aranda Camilo Alonso Vega Mario Berti
Strength
100,000
Beevor: 150,000[1] Jackson: 100,000+[2] Preston: 100,000[3] Preston: 1,000 airplanes[3] Jackson: 700 italian and 250 german airplanes[4] Beevor: 600 airplanes[1] 700 guns[1] 150–200 tanks[3][4] thousands of trucks[4]
Casualties and losses
Very heavy including many captured
Nationalist: moderate; Italian: 731 dead 2,481 wounded 13 missing
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Spanish Civil War
Background
List of battles
July 1936 uprising
Melilla
Seville
1st Barcelona
Cuartel de la Montaña
Gijón
Oviedo
Cuartel de Loyola
1936
German intervention
Guadarrama
Andalusia
Alcázar
Extremadura
Convoy de la Victoria
Almendralejo
Sigüenza
1st Mérida
Badajoz
Majorca
Sierra Guadalupe
Córdoba
Gipuzkoa
Irún
Monte Pelado
Talavera
Santuario de Nuestra Señora de la Cabeza
Guinea
Cerro Muriano
Cape Spartel
Seseña
Madrid
Ciudad Universitaria
1st Corunna Road
Villarreal
Ursula
Aceituna
Lopera
2nd Corunna Road
1937
3rd Corunna Road
Málaga
Jarama
Cape Machichaco
Guadalajara
Pozoblanco
War in the North
Cantabrian Sea
Biscay
Durango
Guernica
Bilbao
Santander
Asturias
El Mazuco
Jaén
2nd Barcelona
Deutschland
Almería
Segovia
Huesca
Albarracín
Brunete
Zaragoza
1st Belchite
Cape Cherchell
Sabiñánigo
1st Lérida
Teruel
1938
Valladolid
Alfambra
Cape Palos
Aragon
2nd Belchite
3rd Barcelona
Caspe
2nd Lérida
1st Gandesa
Segre
Levante
Balaguer
Los Blázquez
Alicante
Granollers
Bielsa
2nd Mérida
Ebro
2nd Gandesa
Cantabria
Cabra
Sant Vicenç de Calders
1939
Catalonia
Valsequillo
Xàtiva
La Garriga
Minorca
Cartagena
Final offensive
The Aragon Offensive was an important military campaign during the Spanish Civil War, which began after the Battle of Teruel. The offensive, which ran from March 7, 1938, to April 19, 1938, smashed the Republican forces, overran Aragon, and conquered parts of Catalonia and the Levante.
^ abcBeevor, Antony. The Battle for Spain. The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939. Penguin Books. London. 2006. p.324
^Jackson, Gabriel. The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1939. Princeton University Press. Princeton. 1967. pag. 407
^ abcPreston, Paul. The Spanish Civil War. Reaction, Revolution & Revenge. Harper Perennial. London. 2006. p.282
^ abcJackson, Gabriel. The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1939. Princeton University Press. Princeton. 1967. p.407
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