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Winter Storm: The Battle for Stalingrad and the Operation to Rescue 6th Army Hans Wijers
Publisher: Stackpole Books

Meanwhile, '6th Army' was driving towards Stalingrad, for a long period unsupported by '4th Panzer Army,' which had been diverted to help '1st Panzer Army' cross the Don. On December 23, Manstein canceled Winter Storm and left 6th Army to its fate. Soviet forces must block this attack to prevent the fascists from escaping the city. River; the attempt was not successful, but it greatly disrupted German operations in the Caucasus region, for example forcing Army Group South (A) to pull back to within 250 kilometers from Stalingrad to consolidate German positions in the area. The Soviets made a gritty stand in the ruins of Stalingrad, then counterattacked north and south of that city, encircling the German 6th Army. Since withdrawal The operation to liberate Sixth Army was named “Wintergewitter” (Winter Storm). The German invasion of the Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa, had begun in June 1941 as a staggering success, with one Soviet army after another encircled and destroyed. Are making a comeback, if only for a short time. Erich von Manstein, the newly appointed Army Group Don commander, developed a plan to rescue the encircled Sixth Army. Jul 29, 2010 - In the summer of 1942, German, Italian, Romanian, Hungarian, and Croatian forces, organized as the German Army Group South (B), which contained the 6th Army under Colonel General Friedrich Paulus and the 4th Panzer Army under . The Red Army had encircled the Wehrmacht's 6th Army in Stalingrad with Operation Uranus, conducted from 19 November 1942. Jun 26, 2013 - Winter Storm: The Battle for Stalingrad and the Operation to Rescue 6th Army by Hans Wijers. Source: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-E0406-0022-001/CC-BY-SA, via Wikimedia Commons. The Plan The “revolving tank battle” lasted for two days and was a German success. Nov 8, 2013 - AI Battle: Winter Storm The Wehrmacht has launched Operation Winter Storm in an attempt to relieve their Sixth Army in Stalingrad. Apr 8, 2014 - Russian infantrymen forming the inner ring of the Stalingrad pocket. By the middle of December, the German relief effort called Operation Winter Storm was making progress to within 48km of the encirclement ring, and the airlift with which the encircled army should have been kept going until the The 24th Tank Corps was designated as the army's exploitation force, in line with the doctrine of Deep Battle. Oct 16, 2012 - The war ended in the spring of 1945, when Germany's armed forces surrendered unconditionally following the 'Battle of Berlin,' a strategic operation executed by the Red Army. The battles on the Eastern Front constituted the largest ..