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Meat Grinder: the Battles for the Rzhev Salient, 1942--43. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 9781472851819. Erickson, John (2003) [1975]. The Road to Stalingrad: Stalin’s War with Germany Volume One. London: Cassell. ISBN 0-304-36541-6. Gerasimova, Svetlana (2016). The Red Army's forgotten 15-month campaign against Army Group Center, 1942 ...
The Red Army suffered massive casualties for little gain during the fighting, [6] giving the battle a notoriety reflected in its sobriquet: "The Rzhev Meat Grinder". Rzhev lies 140 miles (230 kilometres) west of Moscow and was captured by the German Wehrmacht in Operation Typhoon in the autumn of 1941, which took them to the gates of Moscow.
The M45 Quadmount was the principal weapon (along with the 37mm gun) of highly mobile anti-aircraft artillery battalions deployed in the European Theater during World War II. These battalions provided invaluable air defense to much larger units, particularly field artillery.
Throughout World War II, Northrop built roughly 700 P-61s, also known as the Black Widow, which was equipped with four 50-caliber machine guns, and four 20mm cannons, and could carry up to 6,400 ...
Soviet troops fought major battles from building to building and room to room, with success often measured in mere yards. As the Germans desperately tried to eliminate these pockets they poured more and more troops into the city, weakening their flanks and wasting men and materiel in what was becoming a meat-grinder for the Wehrmacht.
Meat grinder may also refer to: Meat Grinder, 2009 Thai horror film "Meat Grinder," a song by Madvillain from their album Madvillainy; Saddam Hussein's alleged shredder, described as a meat grinder for people; Colloquial term for attrition warfare or human wave attacks. Battles of Rzhev during the World War II, nicknamed the "meat-grinder" by ...
Krups One-Touch Coffee and Spice Grinder. $19 $24 Save $5. See at Amazon. Oxo Good Grips Food Scale. $56. ... Dozens of World War II bombs unearthed at children's playground in northern England ...
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