16 January 1943
Capture of Pitomnik
The only airfield with a night flying to supply the German 6th army in Stalingrad
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Pitomnik in Russia. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
The only airfield with a night flying to supply the German 6th army in Stalingrad
Provenance
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