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Title
“Tanks Are Coming Now....”
Description
As the vast size and scope of the Russian attack through the Luchessa Valley became apparent, it was realized that the battered GD Infantry Division lay at the focal point of the offensive. The Grenadier Regiment GD (less II Battalion) …
Publisher
Date
1942-12-01
Scenario#
8
Scenario Description
As the vast size and scope of the Russian attack through the Luchessa Valley became apparent, it was realized that the battered GD Infantry Division lay at the focal point of the offensive. The Grenadier Regiment GD (less II Battalion) defended a line Ssmolkowo-Gorowatka-Snernossekowo. The regiment’s command posts were in constant telephone communication with division command. During the snowy afternoon of 1 December the CO of the Grenadier Regiment – Oberst Köhler, speaking from a bunker on the slope of a hill overlooking the village of Gorowatka – was again on the phone describing the precarious situation of the troops under his command. They had virtually no anti-tank weapons, his sector consisting solely of a few strongpoints and machine gun nests, his men freezing in their foxholes and building cellars. Division 1a General Staff Major von Hobe listening in at division HQ could hear the rattle of tank tracks and the bursts of machine gun fire over the line.
Location
Gorowatka, Luchessa Valley, Russia
Battle Name
Battle Narrative
Operation Mars, also known as the Second Rzhev-Sychevka Offensive Operation, was the codename for an offensive launched by Soviet forces against German forces during World War II. It took place between 25 November and 20 December 1942 around the Rzhev salient in the vicinity of Moscow. The offensive was a joint operation of the Soviet Western Front and Kalinin Front co-ordinated by Georgy Zhukov. The offensive was one in a series of particularly-bloody engagements that are collectively known in Soviet and Russian histories as the Battles of Rzhev, which occurred near Rzhev, Sychevka and Vyazma between January 1942 and March 1943. The battles became known as the "Rzhev meat grinder" for their huge losses, particularly on the Soviet side. For many years, they were relegated to a footnote in Soviet military history.
Narrative Source
Wikipedia: Operation Mars
Combatants
German
Russian

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