Urban Nightmare

Late September found the 13th Guards Rifle Division still clinging stubbornly to a narrow section of the riverbank in downtown Stalingrad. The Germans had shifted their main effort north to the factory district, and the battle for the center of the city had quieted down. As a result, the emphasis …

1942-09-28

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Late September found the 13th Guards Rifle Division still clinging stubbornly to a narrow section of the riverbank in downtown Stalingrad. The Germans had shifted their main effort north to the factory district, and the battle for the center of the city had quieted down. As a result, the emphasis of the fighting was more on localized small unit actions. One such action saw the Russians attempt to capture one of the key German strongpoints that towered over the riverbank, the Specialist's House. The Russians dispatched a lightly-armed "Storm Group" of 50 men from the 13th Guards Division to seize the building in a nighttime assault. The attack turned into a nightmare as the Guardsmen broke into the well-fortified Specialist's House, where they ran into captured Russian tanks which were dug-in inside the building.

Stalingrad, Russia

In the Battle of Stalingrad, Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. Marked by fierce close-quarters combat and direct assaults on civilians in air raids, it is one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare, with an estimated 2 million total casualties. After their defeat at Stalingrad, the German High Command had to withdraw considerable military forces from the Western Front to replace their losses.

Russian

German

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