The 17. Armee was established on 20 December 1940. Initially they were providing security for the German/Russian frontier from 20 December 1940 through 21 June 1941. The 17. Armee was in existence for 1,600 days and served entirely on the Eastern Front fighting mostly in the southern sectors.
| Eastern Campaign Calendar of Battles and Engagements |
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| 1. | FrontierFighting in Galicia-Volhynia. | 6.22.1941 | 7.12.1941 | 21 |
| a] | BreakthroughBattle by the Galician Frontier Detachments. | 6.22.1941 | 6.27.1941 | 6 |
| b] | DriveOver the Horyn on the Stalin Line. | 6.25.1941 | 7.4.1941 | 10 |
| c] | Battlefor Lemberg. | 6.28.1941 | 6.30.1941 | 3 |
| d] | Drive onTarnopol. | 6.29.1941 | 7.1.1941 | 3 |
| e] | Battlesaround Tarnopol and Breakthrough at Proskurov and Starokonstantinov . | 7.2.1941 | 7.10.1941 | 9 |
| 2. | Breakthrough of the Stalin Line | 7.2.1941 | 7.25.1941 | 24 |
| 3. | Advancefighting to the Dnjepr River and attacks across the river. | 7.25.1941 | 10.5.1941 | 73 |
| a] | Battle ofUman. | 7.25.1941 | 8.8.1941 | 15 |
| b] | PursuitBattles to the Dnjepr. | 7.26.1941 | 8.29.1941 | 35 |
| c] | Pursuit Battlesand Clearing Actions in the Dnjepr Bend. | 8.4.1941 | 8.25.1941 | 22 |
| d] | Securingthe Dnjepr Bend. | 8.10.1941 | 9.30.1941 | 42 |
| e] | DefensiveBattles in the Dnjepropetrovsk Bridgehead. | 9.1.1941 | 9.27.1941 | 27 |
| f] | PursuitBattles at Poltava. | 9.13.1941 | 10.5.1941 | 23 |
| 4. | Pursuitto the Donets. | 10.1.1941 | 11.21.1941 | 52 |
| a] | PursuitBattles Around Psiol and the Vorskla. | 10.1.1941 | 10.10.1941 | 10 |
| b] | Breakthroughand Pursuit to the Middle Donets. | 10.6.1941 | 10.20.1941 | 15 |
| c] | Battlesin the Donets Basin. | 10.21.1941 | 11.21.1941 | 32 |
| d] | Drive onRostov and the Capture of the City. | 11.17.1941 | 11.21.1941 | 5 |
| 5. | Defensivebattles in the Donets Basin. | 11.22.1941 | 1.17.1942 | 57 |
| 6. | Defensivebattles in the Donets Basin. | 1.18.1942 | 4.7.1942 | 80 |
| 7. | SpringDefensive Fighting in the Donets Basin. | 4.8.1942 | 5.16.1942 | 39 |
| 8. | Battle ofAnnihilation at Barvenkovo. | 5.17.1942 | 5.27.1942 | 11 |
| 9. | Defensivebattles in the Donets Basin. | 5.28.1942 | 7.10.1942 | 44 |
| 10. | Breakthroughthe Enemy Winter Positions in the Donets Basin. | 7.11.1942 | 7.20.1942 | 10 |
| 11. | Battlefor Rostov and Bataisk | 7.21.1942 | 7.26.1942 | 6 |
| 12. | PursuitFighting in the Kuban. | 7.27.1942 | 8.13.1942 | 18 |
| 13. | AdvanceThrough the Kuban, Capture of the Taman Peninsula and of Novorossiysk . | 8.14.1942 | 9.10.1942 | 28 |
| 14. | Battles inthe High and Western Caucasus. | 8.18.1942 | 11.18.1942 | 93 |
| 15. | Defensein the High and Western Caucasus Mountains. | 11.19.1942 | 1.4.1943 | 47 |
| 16. | Withdrawalfrom the Central Caucausus on thelower Kuban. | 1.5.1943 | 2.11.1943 | 38 |
| 17. | DefensiveFighting in the Kuban Bridgehead. | 2.12.1943 | 3.31.1943 | 48 |
| 18. | DefensiveBattles in the Kuban Bridgehead | 4.1.1943 | 9.14.1943 | 167 |
| 19. | Evacuationof the Kuban Bridgehead. | 9.15.1943 | 10.9.1943 | 25 |
| 20. | DefensiveFighting in the Crimea and Defensive Battle for the Kertsch Peninsula. | 11.1.1943 | 12.11.1943 | 42 |
| 21. | DefensiveBattles for the Crimea. | 1.1.1944 | 5.12.1944 | 133 |
| a] | DefensiveFighting in the Crimea. | 1.1.1944 | 4.7.1944 | 98 |
| b] | Withdrawalto Fortress Sevastopol. | 4.8.1944 | 4.16.1944 | 9 |
| c] | DefensiveBattles for Fortress Sevastopol and the Evacuation of the Crimea Across theBlack Sea. | 4.17.1944 | 5.12.1944 | 26 |
| 22. | Reservefor Heeresgruppe Sudukraine. | 5.13.1944 | 7.25.1944 | 74 |
| 23. | Fightingin Galicia Between San and Visloka. | 7.26.1944 | 9.30.1944 | 67 |
| 24. | PositionalFighting on the Visloka BetweenWeichsel and the Carpathain. | 10.1.1944 | 1.14.1945 | 106 |
| 25. | RetreatFighting in Western Galicia and Defensive Fighting in the Upper SilesianIndustrial Region. | 1.15.1945 | 2.14.45 | 31 |
| 26. | Fightingin Central Silesia Between Neisse and Lauban Including the Defense of Breslau. | 1.28.1945 | 5.7.1945 | 100 |
