Mounted Extraction

The Russians reopened their attack on the 2nd Parachute Division. The fallschirmjager were deployed along both sides of the highway leading to Kirograd and were supported by elements of the 286th Self-Propelled Gun Brigade. The Russians initially moved 25 T-34 tanks forward to test the resolve of the paratroopers. …

1944-01-05

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The Russians reopened their attack on the 2nd Parachute Division. The fallschirmjager were deployed along both sides of the highway leading to Kirograd and were supported by elements of the 286th Self-Propelled Gun Brigade. The Russians initially moved 25 T-34 tanks forward to test the resolve of the paratroopers. The German StuGs opened fire and in less than 30 minutes, an entire Soviet tank regiment had been put out of action. All along the 2nd Parachute Division's front line, the StuGs were moving to new positions, keeping the Russian tanks at bay. During the confused fighting, two companies of the 2nd Battalion were cut off. The StuGs were called into action once more, this time to extract their encircled comrades.

Plavy, Russia

The Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive, also known in Soviet historical sources as the liberation of right-bank Ukraine, was a strategic offensive executed by the Soviet 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Ukrainian Fronts, along with the 2nd Belorussian Front, against the German Army Group South, Army Group A and elements of Army Group Center, and fought from late December 1943 to early May 1944. The battles on the right-bank Ukraine and in the Crimea were the most important event of the 1944 winter-spring campaign on the Eastern Front. Consisting of a whole series of closely linked operations, the goal of this offensive was to split Wehrmacht's Army Group South and to clear the German-Romanian-Hungarian forces from most of the Ukrainian and Moldovian territories, which were occupied by Axis forces. It was one of the biggest offensives of World War II, stretching over a 1,200 km (745 mi) front, to a 450 km depth (280 mi) and involving almost 3,500,000 troops from both sides.

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