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The Pitomnik airfield (Russian: питомник, lit. plant nursery) was an airfield in Russia.During the Second World War, it was the primary of seven airfields used by the German Wehrmacht during the Battle of Stalingrad.
IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles is a set of standalone video games and the third generation game in the IL-2 Sturmovik series of combat flight simulators.The two first modules were released in 2013 (IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad) and 2016 (IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Moscow) and it was not before November 2017 that the series officially received its current name. [2]
300 aircraft [1] 281,158 soldiers (Glantz) [2] 250,000 soldiers 4,130 guns and mortars 300 tanks ... (Operation Ring) was the last part of the Battle of Stalingrad ...
The 1077th Anti-Aircraft Regiment (Russian: 1077-й зенитный артиллерийский полк, romanized: 1077-y zenitnyy artilleriyskiy polk, lit. '1077th Zenithal [Anti-Aircraft] Artillery Regiment') was a unit of the Stalingrad Corps Region of the Soviet Air Defense Forces that participated in the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942. [ 1 ]
The last official report from January 21, 1943, counted 443 infantry and 444 artillery soldiers in Stalingrad. [10] Just before the surrender of the 6th Army at the end of January, about 1,000 wounded were flown out, and of the remaining men in the regiment, nearly 900 became prisoners of war .
IL-2 Sturmovik games spans three generations : . The first game in the series, IL-2 Sturmovik, was first released on 18 November 2001. [3] This started the original line of IL-2 Sturmovik games which in the present day is officially titled IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 as this was the title of its "Complete Edition" back in 2006, the final compilation of add-ons in the first generation of IL-2 games.
The Ilyushin Il-2 (Russian: Илью́шин Ил-2) is a ground-attack plane that was produced by the Soviet Union in large numbers during the Second World War.The word shturmovík (Cyrillic: штурмовик), the generic Russian term for a ground-attack aircraft, became a synecdoche for the Il-2 in English sources, where it is commonly rendered Shturmovik, Stormovik [3] and Sturmovik.
Tatsinskaya served as the main base for the Ju 52 transport planes, while Morozovskaya was mainly used by the Heinkel He 111 bombers, which were converted to transport planes. The airfield was under threat of being taken by the Soviet Red Army but Hermann Göring forbade its evacuation, despite request from Major General Fiebig , who was in ...