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62 and 64 Armies escape encirclement on Stalingrad's approaches by withdrawing swiftly to the city itself |
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Junction of German 6 Army and 4 Panzer Army on near approaches of the city |
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Chuikov is given command of 62 Army |
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The 62 Army forces defending the city are less than 55 000 men |
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The 6 Army forces preparing to attack the city are about 80 000 men |
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48 Panzer Corps units reaches the Volga on southern outskirts of Stalingrad in the Latoshinka-Kuporosnoe sectors |
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62 Army is cut off from 64 Army and remains alone in Stalingrad |
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Chuikov arrives in 62 Army HQ on Mamaev Kurgan to take effective command |
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Zhukov and Vasilevsky meet Stalin at Stavka GHQ, discussing guidelines of the future counter offensive |
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Meeting at Vinnitsa between Paulus and Hitler, which commands to seize the city in the shortest possible time |
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Start of street fighting, with Germans near workers villages before the Barrikady and Red October factories zone |
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German 51 Corps progresses 3km, captures Gorodische and Alexandrovka stations, and reaches Aviogorodok |
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Under heavy fire, V.I. Chujkov decides to deplace HQ from Mamaev Kurgan to the bunker on Tsaritsa river |
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One of the most critical days : committing strong forces in a major assault, F. Paulus aims at the city center |
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German 295 division besieges Mamaev Kurgan, 71 division takes central station and some key buildings near the Volga |
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Rodimtsev's 13 Guards division starts crossing the Volga at dusk and repels German infiltration from the coastline |
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After regrouping, German forces renew the onslaught in city center towards the Volga |
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51 Army Corps |
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At the end of the day, German units reach the river along the central ferry crossing, bringing it under direct fire |
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Remnants of 244, 133 and 35 divisions, 92 and 42 brigades, cut off from the Army, continue fighting south of Tsaritsa |
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685 Rifle Regiment crosses the Volga and deploys in the 13 division sector, aiming for 9 January square |
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100 Jäger division arrives from the Don sector as reinforcement to German troops inside the city |
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100 Infantry Division |
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Soviet local offensives around Mamaev kurgan came to a stall after five days of slow progression |
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193 division arrives as reinforcement, immediately deployed to sustain the German crushing onslaught |
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A storm group led by seargent J.F. Pavlov invests a house on 9 January square, with excellent tactical position |
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The Stalingrad Front becomes the Don Front, while the South-East Front becomes the new Stalingrad Front |
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In the Orlovka salient, unit groups of colonels Andrjusenko (west) and Gorokhov (east) are compressed by German advance |
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Shattered remnants from 23 Tank Corps, defending workers villages, are replaced by reffited 42 and 92 rifle brigades |
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Soviet armies gradually slow their frontal attacks in Kotluban region, replacing them by a grinding war of attrition |
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