The ENTIRE Battle of Stalingrad: The City That Broke the German Army
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The ENTIRE Battle of Stalingrad: The City That Broke the German Army
On the night of the fourteenth of September, nineteen forty-two, a Soviet sergeant named Yakov Pavlov climbed into a small boat on the east bank of the Volga River and pushed off toward a city that was on fire. Machine gun fire reached out across the water before his boat touched the far shore.
Covered here, in order:
Case Blue, the bombing, and the drive on the Volga
The street fight: Chuikov, the factories, the grain elevator, Pavlov's House
The Volga crossings and Rodimtsev's guards
Operation Uranus and the ring closing at Kalach
The airlift, Winter Storm, and the surrender of the Sixth Army
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The trapped army: The German Sixth Army, about a quarter of a million Axis troops, encircled at Stalingrad by 23 November 1942. (Wikipedia, Operation Uranus)
The turn: Operation Uranus, 19 November 1942, struck the weak Romanian Third and Fourth Armies on the flanks and closed the ring near Kalach. (Wikipedia, Operation Uranus)
The bombing: On 23 August 1942 Luftflotte 4 flew about 1,600 sorties and killed roughly 40,000 civilians, one of the deadliest air raids before the atomic bombs. (Wikipedia, Bombing of Stalingrad)
Pavlov's House: A Soviet platoon held one apartment building for 58 days; Chuikov said the Germans lost more men there than taking Paris. (Wikipedia, Pavlov's House)
The airlift that failed: The Sixth Army needed about 300 tons a day to survive; the Luftwaffe averaged about 117. (Osprey, The Stalingrad Airlift)
The surrender: Paulus was made Field Marshal on 30 January 1943 and surrendered the next day; about 91,000 were captured and only 5,000 to 6,000 ever came home. (Britannica, Friedrich Paulus)
The cost: Axis losses topped 800,000; Soviet military losses ran near 1.1 million; often called the costliest single battle in history. (Britannica; ww2db)
The ENTIRE Battle of Stalingrad: The City That Broke the German Army
Armor & Ash
29,756 views
The ENTIRE Battle of Stalingrad: The City That Broke the German Army
On the night of the fourteenth of September, nineteen forty-two, a Soviet sergeant named Yakov Pavlov climbed into a small boat on the east bank of the Volga River and pushed off toward a city that was on fire. Machine gun fire reached out across the water before his boat touched the far shore.
Covered here, in order:
Case Blue, the bombing, and the drive on the Volga
The street fight: Chuikov, the factories, the grain elevator, Pavlov's House
The Volga crossings and Rodimtsev's guards
Operation Uranus and the ring closing at Kalach
The airlift, Winter Storm, and the surrender of the Sixth Army
The full fact sheet on Battle of Stalingrad is in the pinned comment.
Subscribe for more World War Two countdowns and full battles, and name the next one below.
#Stalingrad #WW2 #WorldWarTwo #EasternFront #History