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Title
Bloody Nose
Description
With overcast skies hampering bombing missions and poorly coordinated artillery preparations, the Russian 3rd Guards Army made only lackluster gains on the first morning of the “Little Saturn” Offensive. Combat in the 203rd Rifle Division’s 592nd Rifle Regiment’s sector was typical. In the early morning of the 16th, the 592nd …
Publisher
Date
1942-12-16
Scenario#
222
J083
Scenario Description
With overcast skies hampering bombing missions and poorly coordinated artillery preparations, the Russian 3rd Guards Army made only lackluster gains on the first morning of the “Little Saturn” Offensive. Combat in the 203rd Rifle Division’s 592nd Rifle Regiment’s sector was typical. In the early morning of the 16th, the 592nd moved up to its starting positions on the Chir River. The river was covered with thick ice but the crossing was made difficult by Germans manning defensive positions in buildings scattered along the river. After vicious fighting, the Russian infantry was able to gain the far side of the river and advance as far as the train station. Once the Russian advance had gone to ground, Axis counterattacks began immediately.
Location
Kransnokutskaya, Russia
Battle Narrative
Operation Saturn, revised as Operation Little Saturn, was a Red Army operation on the Eastern Front of World War II that led to battles in the North Caucasus and Donets Basin regions of the Soviet Union from December 1942 to February 1943. The success of Operation Uranus, launched on 19 November 1942, had trapped 250,000–300,000 troops of General Friedrich Paulus' German 6th Army and parts of General Hoth’s 4th Panzer Army in Stalingrad. To exploit this victory, the Soviet general staff planned a winter campaign of continuous and highly ambitious offensive operations, codenamed "Saturn". Later Joseph Stalin reduced his ambitious plans to a relatively small campaign codenamed "Operation Little Saturn". The offensive succeeded in smashing Germany's Italian and Hungarian allies, applied pressure on the over stretched German forces in Eastern Ukraine and prevented further German advances to the relief of the entrapped forces at Stalingrad. Despite these victories, the Soviets themselves became over extended, setting up the stages for the German offensives of the Third Battle of Kharkov and the Battle of Kursk.
Narrative Source
Combatants
Romanian / German
Russian
Additional Information
Scenario Type = Standard
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