Duel

General Koniev's 2nd Ukrainian Front launched a major offen sive in December of 1943. with the aim to break through the German lines in the Kirovograd area. Multiple attacks were launched and Soviet troops were pouring through. The Panzergrenadier Grossdeutschland …

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General Koniev's 2nd Ukrainian Front launched a major offen sive in December of 1943. with the aim to break through the German lines in the Kirovograd area. Multiple attacks were launched and Soviet troops were pouring through. The Panzergrenadier Grossdeutschland Division was brought up to close the gaps and help create a continuous defensive line. Tliere was a critically vulnerable point along the road to the east of the village of Anniska. Here II Battalion, Panzergrenadier Regiment GD was struggling to hold its position. They were reinforced by the anti-aircraft troops of GD's Army FlaK Battalion just in the nick of time. The German FlaK team was given orders to take position on the road near Lozovatka with their infantry and guns—including 88mm guns nicknamed Anton’ and ‘Berta.’ Scarcely had they set up in position when they were notified by a dropped message from a Focke-Wulf 189 of enemy tanks spotted and Soviet infantry approaching. Some of the German infantry withdrew behind the guns and the first Soviets appeared at about 2000 meters. The duel was on.

Lozovatka, Ukraine

The Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive, also known in Soviet historical sources as the liberation of right-bank Ukraine, was a strategic offensive executed by the Sovietist, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Ukrainian Fronts, along with the 2nd Belorussian Front, against the German Army Group South and Army Group A, and fought from 24 December 1943 – 17 April 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.

Wikipedia: Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive

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