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Word: serafimovich (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1942-1942
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...attack started from the south, Soviet troops north of Stalingrad also launched an assault, moving in a great arc toward Serafimovich. Their purpose was to swing west and south, meet the southern columns and close a ring around the Germans (see map). From Serafimovich prongs spread out like the curving tines of a peasant's pitchfork. From the southern force, moving along the Stalingrad-Novorossiisk railway, prongs also curved off. One jabbed across the Don, severed the Stalingrad-Rostov railway, cut back east to squeeze Axis troops against Stalingrad. In Stalingrad itself the 13th Division began to bend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Hitler's Lost Gamble | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

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