Nishne, Nyet!

When Red Army elements crossed the Don River in early February just west of Rostov and established a bridgehead, the 503rd Heavy Tank Battalion was part of the force tasked to eliminate the threat. A force of six Tigers and then Pz IIIs, with panzergrenadiers riding on them, set …

1943-02-10

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When Red Army elements crossed the Don River in early February just west of Rostov and established a bridgehead, the 503rd Heavy Tank Battalion was part of the force tasked to eliminate the threat. A force of six Tigers and then Pz IIIs, with panzergrenadiers riding on them, set out from the southwestern edge of Rostov on an icy morning, moving toward the riverside village of Nishne-Grilovskaya which was held by elements of the Russian 44th Army. The German objectives were to clear the area north of the railroad embankment and the village, then link up with Kampfgruppe Sander of the 23rd Panzer Division further west.

Nishne-Gnilovskaya, Russia

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.

German

Russian

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