Case Blue, launched in late June of 1942, got off to a smashing start for both the Soviets and the German aggressors…sort of. The Red Army got smashed a lot, and the Wehrmacht did a lot of smashing. By mid-August, the Germans were knocking on the doors of Stalingrad, having reached the Volga River north [...]
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Operation Uranus: Turnabout in Stalingrad
Posted in Russia, World War II (1939-1945), tagged 1942, Case Blue, Fall Blau, Field Marshall Friedrich Paulus, Marshal Georgy Zhukov, Operation Uranus, Stalingrad on November 19 | 2 Comments »
