The 13th Panzer-Division of 3rd Panzer Corps begins to disengage its units halted before Ordshonikidse to avoid being cut off by the heavy Soviet attacks against its communications. 6th Army launches its last major attack to capture Stalingrad and succeeds in reaching the Volga near the Red October factory on a frontage of 600 yards. In a letter to Marshal Petain, Hitler declares that the purpose of this move is "to protect France" against the allies. German forces begin the occupation of those parts of France controlled by the Vichy government.
#European Air War update
Work has been done to update the 1942 Eastern Europe Timeline with more detailed information about the German Summer Offensive codenamed "Fall Blau". Through to 1945, which gives a fascinating insight into the War 2, by military theatre and in chronological order from 1939 Website includes an exhaustive day by day timeline, More than 60 million people had lost their lives and most of EuropeĪnd large parts of Asia lay in ruins. World War 2 involvedĮvery major world power in a war for global domination and at On land, sea and in the air, Poles fought Germans, Italians foughtĪmericans and Japanese fought Australians in a conflict whichįinally settled with the use of nuclear weapons. Infested jungles of Burma to the coral reefed islands of the Mountains of Norway to the sweltering deserts of Libya, the insect The Hedgerows of Normandy to the streets of Stalingrad, the
War, fought over many thousand of square kilometres followed. Germany and within a week, Australia, New Zealand, Canada andĪfrica had also joined the war. The evening of September 3rd, Britain and France were at war with Years ago on September 1st 1939, Germany invaded Poland without War 2, the most titanic conflict in history. Modern world is still living with the consequences of World
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