December 30 Sredneonskaya operation, or "Small Saturn", was completed. As a result of the Sredne Don operation, the Soviet troops, having broken through the enemy front with a width of 340 km, defeated 5 Italian, 5 Romanian and 1 German divisions, 3…
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From the report of AM Vasilevsky to the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of December 18, 1942.
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On December 14, the German troops had to evacuate a part of the bridgehead between Chir and Don in an area east of the Don. The offensive from the bridgehead in any case had to be abandoned, since even the division that…
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"It is very, very difficult to properly assess the state of the enemy aviation grouping (this is especially true for the Luftwaffe.) The fact is that the air forces of the German Air Force were very often used as" fire brigades ".…
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"On the night of the second to third of August 1942, the motorized infantry and tanks of the Goth army broke into Kotelnikovo, suppressing the resistance of not numerous Red Army soldiers, the invaders began to establish their own order, changed signboards…
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Lomakin Pimen Andreevich, born in 1882, education - primary, a poor Cossack, a native of Krylov's farm (the former Ataman stanitsa of the Salsk region) now Zavetinsky district of the Rostov region. In 1902 he was called up for active military service.…
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On December 14, 1942, the American weekly The Time wrote about the transfer of Soviet troops to the counteroffensive at Stalingrad:
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It was on Myshkove.Lev Larin, a leading researcher of the Museum-Reserve "Battle of Stalingrad"
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"To ensure the encircled troops of the 6th Field Army and the connections of the 4th Panzer Army with ammunition, fuel, food, medicines and other necessary supplies, the German command began to arrange the transfer of the necessary cargoes by air by…
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A drawing of German military physician Kurt Roiber, executed by coal on the reverse side of the Soviet topographic map...
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The tree survived the battle of Stalingrad is still growing in Volgograd
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The chronicle of the Soviet counter-offensive at Stalingrad ... On the morning of December 12, 1942, the German army group "Goth" launched an offensive. Operation "Winter storm" has begun.
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The chronicle of the Soviet counter-offensive at Stalingrad ... On the morning of December 12, 1942, the German army group "Goth" launched an offensive. Operation "Winter storm" has begun.
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The chronicle of the Soviet counter-offensive at Stalingrad ... On the morning of December 12, 1942, the German army group "Goth" launched an offensive. Operation "Winter storm" has begun.
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Directive No 203974 of the Supreme Command of the Red Army was issued on the strengthening of Stalingrad by combat equipment and weapons
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