Soviet Union Air & Naval support: United Kingdom[a]
Commanders and leaders
N. von Falkenhorst Eduard Dietl Hans Feige Hjalmar Siilasvuo
Markian Popov Valerian Frolov Roman Panin Stepan Morozov [ru]
Units involved
Army of Norway
Mtn. Corps Norway
2nd Mountain Div.
3rd Mountain Div.
XXXVI Corps
169th Infantry Div.
6th SS Mountain Div.[b]
Finnish 6th Division
Tank Battalion 211
III Corps
Finnish 3rd Division
Tank Battalion 40
Karelian Front[c]
14th Army
42nd Corps
104th Rifle Div. [ru]
122nd Rifle Div. [ru]
14th Rifle Div.
52nd Rifle Div.
88th Rifle Div.
1st Tank Div.
186th Rifle Div. [ru][d]
289th Rifle Div.[e]
7th Army
54th Rifle Div.
Casualties and losses
21,501 Germans 5,000 Finns[5]
unknown
Murmansk
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Murmansk, port and administrative center of Murmansk Oblast, in the Russian North
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Continuation War
1941
Ladoga Karelia
Karelian Isthmus
East Karelia
Silver Fox
Reindeer
Platinum Fox
Arctic Fox
Petsamo
Hanko
Bengtskär
Porlampi
1942
Suursaari
Someri
1944
Vyborg–Petrozavodsk
Vyborg
Kuuterselkä
Beryozovye Islands
Kaprolat
Tienhaara
Tali-Ihantala
Gulf of Finland
Narvi Island
Vyborg Bay
Svir–Petrozavodsk
Vuosalmi
Nietjärvi
Ilomantsi
Hokki
Baltic Sea
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Military operations, Arctic 1941–1945
Continuation War (1941–1944)
Silberfuchs
Rentier
Platinfuchs
Polarfuchs
RAF, RN, Fleet Air Arm
Benedict
EF
Orator
Svalbard (1941–1945)
Gauntlet
Fritham
Gearbox
Gearbox II
Zitronella
Haudegen
Lapland War
Birke
Nordlicht
Associated articles
British occupation of the Faroe Islands
Petsamo–Kirkenes offensive
Liberation of Finnmark
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Nordic states, 1939–1945
Denmark
Weserübung
Denmark
Norway
Valentine (Faroe Islands)
Safari
Isefjord
Bornholm
Finland
Winter War
Continuation War
Silver Fox
Orator
Lapland War
Tanne Ost
Iceland
Fork
Norway
Altmark incident
Weserübung
Denmark
Norway
Alphabet
Heavy water sabotage
Claymore
Kirkenes and Petsamo
Gauntlet
Fritham
Gearbox
Gearbox II
Leader
Zitronella
Attacks on Tirpitz
Petsamo–Kirkenes
Finnmark
Operation Silver Fox (German: Silberfuchs; Finnish: Hopeakettu) from 29 June to 17 November 1941, was a joint German–Finnish military operation during the Continuation War on the Eastern Front of World War II against the Soviet Union. The objective of the offensive was to cut off and capture the key Soviet Port of Murmansk through attacks from Finnish and Norwegian territory.
The operation had three stages. In Operation Reindeer (Rentier) German forces advanced from Norway to secure the area around Petsamo and its nickel mines. Operation Platinum Fox (Platinfuchs; Platinakettu) was an attack from the north by Mountain Corps Norway, as XXXVI Mountain Corps and units from the Finnish III Corps attacked from the south in Operation Arctic Fox (Polarfuchs; Napakettu) to cut off and capture Murmansk by a pincer movement. The German–Finnish forces took some ground but Murmansk was neither cut off nor captured and continued to operate as an important destination for Allied Arctic convoys throughout the war.
^Ziemke (1959), p. 152.
^Mann & Jörgensen (2002), pp. 81–87.
^Ziemke (1959), p. 181.
^Shirokorad (2001), Chapter 3, Part X.
^Ziemke (1959), p. 184.
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