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The following events occurred in January 1942: ... The Oregon State Beavers defeated the Duke Blue Devils 20–16 ... Joseph Stalin ordered a general offensive ...
Agustín Muñoz Grandes (27 January 1896 – 11 July 1970) was a Spanish general, and politician, vice-president of the Spanish Government and minister with Francisco Franco several times; also known as the commander of the Blue Division between 1941 and 1942.
The operation was initially named Fall Blau (Case Blue), which is the common name used for the whole offensive. The name was changed from Blau to Braunschweig on 30 June. [ 1 ] The plans following the original Case Blue (originally named Blue I and Blue II ) were renamed to Operation Clausewitz and Operation Dampfhammer .
1942, clockwise from top left: British artillery barrage opens the Battle of El Alamein; the Jews of Salonika are rounded up for deportation to extermination camps; Soviet troops of the Great Patriotic War fight the Battle of Stalingrad; USS Lexington (CV-2) under fire at the Battle of the Coral Sea; Reinhard Heydrich's car after attack by Czech resistance; 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking troops ...
The 164th Regiment took part in repulsing a major Japanese offensive in October 1942, while the 132nd Regiment, along with the 25th Infantry Division assaulted the highly fortified Japanese Gifu defensive complex at Mount Austen in January 1943. Historians describe the Americal Division as the most effective of all the US Army divisions in that ...
The Soviet troops in the Kursk–Oboyan Direction were opposed by the troops of the left wing of the 6th German Army (Commander Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau, from January 5, 1942 – General of Tank Forces Friedrich Paulus) (29th Army Corps) and the right flank of the 2nd German Army, General Colonel Maximilian von Weichs (48th Motorized ...
Paulus arriving in southern Russia, January 1942 In November 1941, after the German Sixth Army's commander, Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau , Paulus's patron, became commander of the entire Army Group South , Paulus, who had never commanded a larger unit than a battalion, was promoted to General der Panzertruppe and appointed commander of ...
282,606 in the 6th Army from 21 August to the end of the battle; 17,293 in the 4th Panzer Army from 21 August to 31 January; 55,260 in the Army Group Don from 1 December 1942 to the end of the battle (12,727 killed, 37,627 wounded and 4,906 missing) [148] [258] Walsh estimates the losses to 6th Army and 4th Panzer division were over 300,000 ...