Assault on Avesnes Beta 0.92 After Rommel's unexpected breakthrough with his 7th Armored Division over the northern extension of the Maginot Line, he pushed as far as he could.

Late summer/autumn 1942. In the second week of July 1942, the campaign began in the Caucasus. The purpose of this enterprise was to occupy the oil fields of Maikop, Grozny and the Black Sea ports of Novorossiysk, Tuapse, Sukhum and Batum.