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Stalingrad has become synonymous with large-scale urban battles with immense casualties on both sides, [36] [31] [347] [32] [34] and according to historian David Glantz, has become a "metaphor for the ferocity of the Soviet-German conflict and, indeed, for the devastating nature of twentieth-century warfare as a whole". [348]
..The following is a list of the casualties count in battles or offensives in world history. ... Battle of Stalingrad: 1942–1943 World War II: 4,172,000 [26] [27 ...
Soviet advance at Stalingrad from November 19 to November 28, 1942. On 20 November, the Soviet armored and motorized forces advanced towards Kalach, with the intention of encircling the 6th German Army fighting at Stalingrad.
Casualties and losses; 48,000 (12,000 KIA, MIA) [4] 250,000 ... The entire Soviet force at Stalingrad now concentrated on the northern pocket. Intense artillery fire ...
The Italian Army in Russia (Italian: Armata Italiana in Russia; ARMIR) was a combined force the size of a field army unit of the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army) which fought on the Eastern Front during World War II between July 1942 and April 1943.
The first pincer attacked far to the west of the Don, with the second thrust beginning a day later attacking far to the south of Stalingrad. [16] The 6th Army's flanks were protected by Romanian troops, who were quickly routed, and on 23 November, the pincers met at Kalach-na-Donu , thereby encircling the 6th Army. [ 17 ]
Operation Uranus (Russian: Опера́ция «Ура́н», romanized: Operatsiya "Uran") was a Soviet 19–23 November 1942 strategic operation on the Eastern Front of World War II which led to the encirclement of Axis forces in the vicinity of Stalingrad: the German Sixth Army, the Third and Fourth Romanian armies, and portions of the German Fourth Panzer Army.
All three armies were formed on March 1, 1940. The Second Army was the best-equipped Hungarian formation at the beginning of the war, but was virtually eliminated as an effective fighting unit by overwhelming Soviet force during the Battle of Stalingrad, suffering 84% casualties.