Aragon Offensive

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; Jackson: 100,000+; Preston: 100,000; Preston: 1,000 airplanes; Jackson: 700 italian and 250 german airplanes; Beevor: 600 airplanes; 700 guns; 150–200 tanks; thousands of trucks
Casualties and losses
Very heavy including many captured	Nationalist: moderate;; Italian: 731 dead; 2,481 wounded; 13 missing

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.

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