Joseph Stalin19 July 1942
Orders the Stalingrad Defence Committee to prepare the city for war immediately
Russia · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Orders the Stalingrad Defence Committee to prepare the city for war immediately
Moved up to the north-west Front
Arrives in Stalingrad to assume command
The Russians outflank & encircle the German 6th, 9th & 4th Panzer Armies
Gathers 190,000 men, 350 tanks, 340 planes & 8,000 guns on the Staingrad front
Chuikov had witnessed firsthand the blitzkrieg tactics the Nazis had used to sweep across the Russian steppe, so he used the Germans carpet-bombing of the city to draw panzer units into the rubble and chaos, where their progress was impeded.
Here they could be destroyed with Molotov cocktails and Russian artillery operating at close range. This tactic also rendered the German Luftwaffe ineffective, since Stuka dive-bombers could not attack Red Army positions without endangering their own forces
It was at Stalingrad that Chuikov developed the important tactic of hugging the enemy, Guerrilla warfare, by which under-armed Soviet soldiers kept the German army so close to them as to minimize the superior firepower enjoyed by the Wehrmacht.
Put in charge of defending Stalingrad.
Crushes the Romanians & begins to entrap von Pauluss Army
The Red Army begins to encircle the German forces besieging Stalingrad
Leads the attack on the north & south flanks of the Germans
Captures the supply bridge at Kalach
Zhukov begins attacking the German 5th Army & 4th Panzer Army in the rear. The 300,000 force of the German 6th Army is encircled
Zhukov drives the German forces in the north beyond the Chir & Aksay. Zhukov drives Hoths army back across Kotelnikov
The Russians outflank & encircle the German 6th, 9th & 4th Panzer Armies. Commands Russian forces on the Don River Front
Rokossovsky sends in a request for the German 6th Army to surrender, this is refused
The 65th Army advances 5 miles in the first day
The last German airfield at Gumrak is captured
The Germans under Paulus surrender Stalingrad to Rokossovsky
Paulus surrenders the German 6th Army. During the battle the Germans lose 600,000 & the Russians 400,000
The German 6th Army surrenders. Since Zhkovs counter-attack 32 Axis Divisions & 3 Axis Brigades have been destroyed
Personally accepts the surrender of Marshal Paulus & his 6th Army
The remainder of the German forces in Stalingrad lay down their arms
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