2022-07-17 12:11:46
17.07.1942 #ThisDay
80 years ago, the Battle of Stalingrad began. This is one of the largest and fiercest battles, which radically changed the course of the Great Patriotic War and World War II.
In the summer of 1942, fascist troops launched an offensive on the southern wing of the front with the aim of capturing the Don, Kuban, Lower Volga and the oil regions of the Caucasus. The attack on Stalingrad was carried out by the 6th Army under the command of General Friedrich Paulus, specially allocated from Army Group B. The 6th Army was supported by the aviation of the 4th Air Fleet.
They were opposed by the Stalingrad Front, which included the 62nd, 63rd, 64th, 21st, 28th, 38th, 57th Armies and the 8th Air Army of the former Southwestern Front. The front was commanded by Marshal of the Soviet Union Semyon Timoshenko, and from July 23 - Lieutenant General Vasily Gordov.
The forces of the Germans outnumbered the Soviet troops in people - 1.7 times, in artillery and tanks - 1.3 times, in aircraft - more than 2 times.
The Soviet army managed to force the Germans first to get bogged down in defensive battles, and later, as a result of Operation Uranus, the German troops were forced to retreat.
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