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The events of the Battle for Stalingrad have been covered in numerous media works of British, American, German, and Russian origin, [346] for its significance as a turning point in the Second World War and for the loss of life associated with the battle. Stalingrad has become synonymous with large-scale urban battles with immense casualties on ...
Name Lifespan Notes Battle of Trafalgar: 21 October 1805 Spanish Navy Gaspar Costela Vasquez 1787–1892 Served on Santa Ana. [27]: 184 [28] [29] French Navy Emmanuel Louis Cartigny 1790–1892 Served on Redoutable. [27]: 346 British Royal Navy Joseph Sutherland 1789–1890 Served on HMS Beaulieu. [30] [31] Battle of Austerlitz: 2 December 1805
This article includes a list of general references, ... Battle of Stalingrad: 1942–1943 World War II: 4,172,000 [26] [27] 1,250,000 [28] Battle of Changde: 1943
The Axis order of battle at Stalingrad is a list of the significant land units that fought in the Battle of Stalingrad on the side of the Axis Powers between September 1942 and February 1943. Apart from the twenty divisions of the German Wehrmacht, eighteen Romanian divisions took part in the battle on the Axis side as well.
Zaitsev, left, in Stalingrad, December 1942 Zaitsev's sniper rifle, a 7.62×54mmR Mosin Model 1891/30 sniper rifle with a PU 3.5× sniper scope on display at the Volgograd's Stalingrad Panorama Museum. Zaitsev was serving in the Soviet Navy as a clerk in Vladivostok when Germany invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. Like many of his ...
Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus (23 September 1890 – 1 February 1957) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) during World War II who is best known for his surrender of the German 6th Army during the Battle of Stalingrad (July 1942 to February 1943).
For six months Shumilov's army held the southern part of Stalingrad in fierce battles, playing an outstanding role in the heroic defense of the city along with the 62nd army of General Vasily Chuikov. On January 31, 1943, Mikhail Shumilov led the interrogation of Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus, who was captured by the 64th Army near Stalingrad.
Passar went on to participate in the Battle of Stalingrad starting in July 1942, where he became one of the best snipers. By early September 1942, he was credited with taking out 56 enemy combatants, having adopted a daily routine of stalking potential targets in his trench from dawn to dusk.