Operation Uranus (Russian: Опера́ция «Ура́н», romanized: Operatsiya "Uran") was a Soviet 19–23 November 1942 strategic operation on the Eastern Front of...
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area in a timely fashion. Operation Uranus, the tactical deep battle plan, worked. However, the General Staff's deep operation plan was compromised by Joseph...
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Konstantin Rokossovsky (section Operation Uranus)
delayed the attack and it was shelved, only later to be resurrected as "Operation Uranus" with Vatutin playing the lead role, however Walsh asserts that Rokossovsky...
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planning Mars than Uranus, and that the Soviet artillery shell allocation was much smaller for Mars than for Uranus. Operation Uranus received "2.5 to 4...
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German-occupied Soviet Union territory in 16–30 December 1942. The success of Operation Uranus, launched on 19 November 1942, had trapped 250,000 troops of General...
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Look up Uranus or Sol VII in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. Uranus may also refer to: Uranus (mythology)...
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Soviet order of battle for Operation Uranus details the combat units of the Soviet forces that fought in Operation Uranus, the Soviet strategic counteroffensive...
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Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It is a gaseous cyan-coloured ice giant. Most of the planet is made of water, ammonia, and methane in a supercritical...
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Battle of Stalingrad (category Battles and operations of the Soviet–German War)
prevalent at Stalingrad as well. On 19 November, the Red Army launched Operation Uranus, a two-pronged attack targeting the Romanian armies protecting the...
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Case Blue (redirect from Operation Blau)
However, the Red Army defeated the Germans at Stalingrad, following Operations Uranus and Little Saturn. This defeat forced the Axis to retreat from the...
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Battle of Stalingrad. In late November 1942 the Red Army had completed Operation Uranus, encircling some 300,000 Axis personnel in and around the city of Stalingrad...
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from the Don Front, which had been part of the northern pincer of Operation Uranus and had been responsible for the destruction of the 6th Army at Stalingrad...
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totally, and the Sixth Army, encircled by the Red Army as a result of Operation Uranus, surrendered in early February 1943. Adam, Wilhelm; Ruhle, Otto (2015)...
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evidently not just improving its defenses. On 19 November 1942, the Soviet Operation Uranus began with a major attack on Romanian Third Army in the north. The...
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Battle of Kursk (redirect from Operation Zitadel)
from the Don Front, which had been part of the northern pincer of Operation Uranus and had been responsible for the destruction of the 6th Army at Stalingrad...
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group had its lines repeatedly pierced by Red Army counterattacks ("Operation Uranus"), developing into the encirclement crisis during the Battle of Stalingrad...
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Battles of Rzhev (redirect from Rzhev-Vyazma operation)
on Operation Uranus at Stalingrad, so he had little time to care about what was happening at Rzhev, which is questionable considering that Operation Uranus...
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half-a-million Soviet soldiers were taken prisoner by the end of the operation. Encirclement Flanking maneuver Two-front war "Appendix C" (PDF). The...
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almost all the decisive Soviet offensives in World War II, from the Operation Uranus of November 1942 to the assaults on East Prussia (January–April 1945)...
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perfect spot for Marshal Georgy Zhukov's southern strike at the start of Operation Uranus. On 20 November 1942, the Romanian Fourth Army was attacked by the...
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248th Rifle Division (section Operation Uranus)
Astrakhan, and also soon became part of 28th Army. In the wake of Operation Uranus it advanced westward, taking part in the liberation of Elista at the...
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of action that had its first major success at the end of 1942 with Operation Uranus, which led to the liberation of Stalingrad. The Battle of the Dnieper...
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the Battle of Stalingrad (in Dutch) "The 6th Army order of Battle". Map of Stalingrad – 12 December 1942 "Uranus Order of Battle". Stalingrad database....
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of Operation Barbarossa), August 23 (start of the Battle of Stalingrad), September 2 (Victory over Japan Day), November 19 (start of Operation Uranus),...
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284th Rifle Division (section Operation Uranus)
significant, as the day previous the Soviet forces outside the city began Operation Uranus. Chuikov was under orders to continue to take the fight to the enemy...
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4th Guards Rifle Division (section Operation Uranus)
Guards took part in Operation Uranus which surrounded the German 6th Army in and around that city and then in the pursuit operations that drove the remaining...
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Battle of Stalingrad. The 6th Army was encircled within the city after Operation Uranus, the Soviet counter-offensive in Stalingrad, and eventually destroyed...
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50th Guards Rifle Division (section Operation Uranus)
and played a leading role in the defeat of the 3rd Romanian Army in Operation Uranus. It was transferred to the 3rd Guards Army when that was formed and...
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was a competitive shot putter and discus thrower. In the lead up to Operation Uranus, Stöck was the one who reported an expected Soviet attack that day...
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nicknamed Zveroboy ("Beast Slayer"). The Stalingrad counteroffensive, Operation Uranus, exposed the Red Army's urgent need for mobile heavy guns to destroy...
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