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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    chosen because the Red Army began their successful counter-attack (Operation Uranus) in the battle of Stalingrad on 19 November 1942, with much help from...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • Stalingrad: Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in 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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  • completely destroyed during Operation Uranus. However, it was quickly reformed and used by Field Marshal Erich von Manstein's Operation Winter Storm efforts...
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  • 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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    equipped, these forces were unable to stop the Soviet November offensive (Operation Uranus), which punched through both flanks and left the German 6th Army encircled...
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  • of XI Corps of the German Sixth Army. In late December 1942, after Operation Uranus encircled the Sixth Army, Daniels was promoted to Generalleutnant and...
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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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  • 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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  • minor role in an offensive to break into the city. At the start of Operation Uranus it was in 57th Army south of the city and quickly penetrated the Romanian...
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