The Soviet high command’s strategy to defeat the Germans at Stalingrad took the invaders by surprise. Map 1: The German flanks Map 2: Operation Uranus in action Red Army soldiers in winter camouflage charge across the steppe The T-34 in action in Uranus Northern and southern pincers meet Red Army…
Tag: T-34
Season 1
Operation Typhoon: Episode 9
Germany’s final, final assault on the capital of the USSR in November 1941. Map 1: The Battle of Moscow, November 1941. Map 2: The bigger picture. Source: U.S. Army archives. Soviets fighting back during “offensive weather”: Rasputitsa: Defense of Moscow: Women militia training in Moscow, fall 1941: New T-34 tanks…