The Raid on Tatsinskaya was a Soviet armoured raid deep into the German rear conducted by 24th Tank Corps under the command of Major General Vasily Mikhaylovich...

Eastern Front of Europe. The unit's most notable moment was in the raid on Tatsinskaya during Operation Little Saturn in World War II. After the war, it...

directly. On 24 December, tanks of the 24th Tank Corps reached and raided Tatsinskaya Airfield, destroying German transport planes and completing the raid in...

The Tatsinskaya Airfield was the main airfield used by the German Wehrmacht during the Battle of Stalingrad to supply the encircled 6th Army from outside...

(can be considered a political application of the concept) Raid on Drvar Siege Tatsinskaya Raid In French, coup de main can also mean "a helping hand" (informal...

A military raid is a mission where the main objective is to demoralize, destroy valuable enemy installations, free prisoners, gather intelligence, or capture...

November–December 1942 Operation Little Saturn: December 1942 – February 1943 Tatsinskaya Raid Operation Winter Storm: December 1942 Battle for Velikiye Luki (1943)...

Stalingrad. On 1 January 1943 no operational aircraft appeared in the record. After the Raid on Tatsinskaya, the airfield itself fell on 7 January and...

were assigned to the 62nd Fighter Squadron. On 23 December, Grupul 6 was moved to the Tatsinskaya airfield. On 2 January 1943, it was moved to Rostov then...

ISBN 9781846030284. Forczyk, Robert (2012). Red Christmas: The Tatsinskaya Airfield Raid 1942. Osprey Publishing. p. 20. Berger, Florian (2011). The Face...

formed two transport Gruppen, equipped with 58 aircraft, operating out of Tatsinskaya Airfield. They were unsuited to the transport role, and suffered heavy...

Division; it seemed as if the corps would have to go on the defensive. The Soviet Tatsinskaya Raid managed to destroy the airfield and several dozen aircraft...

to the 1st Guards Army two months later. The regiment fought in the Tatsinskaya Raid while attached to the 24th Tank Corps. Between June and September 1943...

required 750 tons. The situation worsened after the Soviets captured Tatsinskaya Airfield on 24 December, forcing the Germans to relocate their air operations...

military officer and general, best known for his leadership in the Tatsinskaya Raid (1942) and subsequent command of the 4th Tank Army (1943–1944). Vasily...

Katyusha rocket barrage on German armor. Afterward, Badanov is involved in the Soviet assault on a German airfield at Tatsinskaya, codenamed Operation Little...

(Russian: Ива́н Никола́евич Ба́нов; 29 August 1916 [O.S. 16 August], Tatsinskaya stanitsa – 9 February 1982, Moscow) was a Soviet military intelligence...

German air raids and shelling. Nevertheless, food and especially water was in short supply. Lacking beds, the soldiers tried to sleep on insulation wool...

In late June one German bomb load in a night raid hit Rokossovsky's HQ, and he escaped only because on a whim he had decided to set up his signals group...

his magnum opus, the novel Life and Fate (Жизнь и судьба, 1959), the KGB raided his flat. The manuscripts, carbon copies, notebooks, as well as the typists'...

people to the Soviet defenders of the city during the Battle of Stalingrad. On 29 November 1943, it was presented to Marshal Joseph Stalin by British Prime...

Clark Five, in Tottenham, North London, England The Soviets began the Tatsinskaya Raid. Björn Þórðarson became the 9th Prime Minister of Iceland. German submarines...

NATO airfields and parking their tanks on the runways, similar to what they have done during Tatsinskaya Raid during the Battle of Stalingrad (note the...

a field army unit of the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army) which fought on the Eastern Front during World War II between July 1942 and April 1943. The...

Uranus 19–30 November 1942 Kotelnikovo offensive 12–31 December 1942 Tatsinskaya Raid 16–28 December 1942 Operation Winter Storm 12–23 December 1942 Middle...

the Tatsinskaya Raid. The division made a 120-kilometer march south and by the end of 27 December concentrated at the village of Skosyrskaya. On 29 December...

objective of the raids, Fighter Command's airfields, remained unscathed. Cloudy skies were largely responsible for the failure of the raids. On 18 August, a...

Western Front's Air Force. After a German air raid while the train was in Orsha, further transportation on the railway was cancelled. He and Naumenko later...

Hungary which saw action during World War II. All three armies were formed on March 1, 1940. The Second Army was the best-equipped Hungarian formation at...

shot down on this date. In January 1943, I. and II./ZG 1, with the 13(Pz)/JG 51 and II/SG 1 formed the backbone of the defence at Tatsinskaya and Morozovsk...