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Title
Rear Area Operations: Morshanovo Diaglevo
Description
SOVIET REAR AREA OPERATIONS: MORSHANOVO DIAGLEVO REGION. VYAZMA SECTOR (10/2/42). ln early 1942, numerous Russian units were cut off in the confused fighting around the German stronghold of Vyazma. The 1st Cevalry Corps and the 8th Airborne Brigade, two such units, managed to evade their pursuers and return to Russian lines in the early summer of 42. They owed their survival to the co-operation of partisan forces and to captured German supplies.
Subject
Publisher
Date
1944-02-10
Scenario#
15
Scenario Description
SOVIET REAR AREA OPERATIONS: MORSHANOVO DIAGLEVO REGION. VYAZMA SECTOR (10/2/42). ln early 1942, numerous Russian units were cut off in the confused fighting around the German stronghold of Vyazma. The 1st Cevalry Corps and the 8th Airborne Brigade, two such units, managed to evade their pursuers and return to Russian lines in the early summer of 42. They owed their survival to the co-operation of partisan forces and to captured German supplies.
Location
Vyazma, Russia
Battle Name
Battle Narrative
The Battles of Rzhev were a series of Soviet operations in World War II between January 8, 1942 and March 31, 1943. Due to the high losses suffered by the Soviet Army, the campaign became known by veterans and historians as the "Rzhev Meat Grinder". During the Soviet winter counter-offensive of 1941, and the Rzhev–Vyazma strategic offensive operation (8 January 1942 – 20 April 1942), German forces were pushed back from Moscow. As a result, a salient was formed along the front line in the direction of the capital, which became known as the Rzhev–Vyazma salient. It was strategically important for the German Army Group Centre due to the threat it posed to Moscow, and was therefore heavily fortified and strongly defended.
Narrative Source
Wikipedia: Battles of Rzhev
Combatants
German
Russian

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