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Title
Not One Step Back
Description
Elements of the German 295th lnfantry Division had infiltrated the northern flank of the 13th Guards Rifle Division along Krutoy Gully and reached the Volga River. A detachment was sent to secure a wooden bridge spanning a neighboring ravine. Unbeknownst …
Publisher
Date
1942-10-01
Scenario#
38
Scenario Description
Elements of the German 295th lnfantry Division had infiltrated the northern flank of the 13th Guards Rifle Division along Krutoy Gully and reached the Volga River. A detachment was sent to secure a wooden bridge spanning a neighboring ravine. Unbeknownst to them, Russian units were just then utilizing the very same bridge in order to move a field gun towards the battle still raging in Krutoy Gully. Their advance temporarily halted, and with Stalin's infamous Order No. 227 in effect espousing Soviet soldiers to not take a single step backwards, the Russians prepared to hold the gully without falling back into Stalingrad proper to the south.
Location
Dolgyi Gully, Stalingrad, Russia
Battle Name
Battle Narrative
In the Battle of Stalingrad, Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. Marked by fierce close-quarters combat and direct assaults on civilians in air raids, it is one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare, with an estimated 2 million total casualties. After their defeat at Stalingrad, the German High Command had to withdraw considerable military forces from the Western Front to replace their losses. The German offensive to capture Stalingrad, a major industrial and transport hub on the Volga River that ensured Soviet access to the Caucasus oil wells, began in August 1942, using the 6th Army and elements of the 4th Panzer Army. The attack was supported by intense Luftwaffe bombing that reduced much of the city to rubble. The battle degenerated into house-to-house fighting, as both sides poured reinforcements into the city. By mid-November, the Germans had pushed the Soviet defenders back at great cost into narrow zones along the west bank of the river.
Narrative Source
Combatants
German
Russians

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