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Title
The Turning Tide
Description
After the German defeat at Kursk, the focus shifted south to the Dnepr River. There, the Germans constructed a fortified line dubbed the "Eastern Rampart". Boasting the Dnepr would flow backwards before the Soviets could overcome this position, the …
Subject
Publisher
Date
1943-12-01
Scenario#
15
Scenario Description
After the German defeat at Kursk, the focus shifted south to the Dnepr River. There, the Germans constructed a fortified line dubbed the "Eastern Rampart". Boasting the Dnepr would flow backwards before the Soviets could overcome this position, the prepared for the inevitable onslaught. In late September, STAVKA, the Soviet High Command, tasked the forces of the Steppe Front with the capture of the key regional center near Poltava. There the Soviet 1st Guards Mechanized Corps repeatedly assaulted the German 23rd Panzer Division. The region finally fell to the Soviets on 23 September 1943.
Location
Poltava, Ukraine
Battle Name
Battle Narrative
The Second Battle of Kiev was a part of a much wider Soviet offensive in Ukraine known as the Battle of the Dnieper involving three strategic operations by the Soviet Red Army and one operational counterattack by the Wehrmacht, which took place between 3 November and 22 December 1943. Following the Battle of Kursk, the Red Army launched the Belgorod-Kharkov Offensive Operation, pushing Erich von Manstein's Army Group South back towards the Dnieper River. Stavka, the Soviet high command, ordered the Central Front and the Voronezh Front to force crossings of the Dnieper. When this was unsuccessful in October, the effort was handed over to theist Ukrainian Front, with some support from the 2nd Ukrainian Front. Theist Ukrainian Front, commanded by Nikolai Vatutin, was able to secure bridgeheads north and south of Kiev (Kyiv).
Narrative Source
Combatants
German
Russian

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