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Sixth Army

Russia · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

4Records
1942–1943Date range
2Named people
2Places

Chronological records

1942

Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov23 November 1942

Stalingrad · Warfare / World War, 2nd

The 300,000 force of the German 6th Army is encircled

1943

Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky8 January 1943

Stalingrad · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Rokossovsky sends in a request for the German 6th Army to surrender, this is refused

Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky13 January 1943

Karpovka · Warfare / World War, 2nd

The most westerly of the 7 airfields supplying the German sixth army in Stalingrad

Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov31 January 1943

Stalingrad · Warfare / World War, 2nd

The German 6th Army surrenders

Names involved

Georgi Konstantinovich ZhukovKonstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky

Provenance

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