I conducted Pauljus and Schmidt up to air station which has been arranged at edge of city. We have silently said goodbye, and they have sat in the plane.

After I have made the review of conditions and have characterized a status of troops, we have left to commanders. I have taken advantage of this opportunity to say goodbye to them and to thank them for self-denying actions. It is fraught with complications and that three battle groups are not under uniform command. I suggest to unit them in divisional battle group.I today have transferred our army headquarters to Tormosin. I personally remain here while position on ×èðå and bridgehead about Don in the slightest degree is not stabilized. Map 30 «Battler of the Chir River» On Dec 1942 Mell-PzBat-210-212-Map29-30.jpg (103.01 KiB) Viewed 42140 times F.W. von Mellenthin «Panzer Battles 1939-1945». What was easy today, could cost a lot of blood tomorrow,” he said. “I walked off a distance, thought about it, and made a decision. We had to advance another ten kilometers into the enemy. My adjutant, Braune-Krikau, a resolute and courageous man with a keen military mind, said ‘sir, that would lead to the destruction of the regiment.’ ‘No,’ I replied. ‘It will lead to the destruction of the French.’” And so he was proven right.

On 23 November 1942, the Soviets completed the encirclement of the 6th Army by linking up at Sovetsky, 10 miles east of Kalach on the Don. [11]Scherzer, Veit (2007). Die Ritterkreuzträger 1939–1945 Die Inhaber des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939 von Heer, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm sowie mit Deutschland verbündeter Streitkräfte nach den Unterlagen des Bundesarchives[ The Knight's Cross Bearers 1939–1945 The Holders of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939 by Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and Allied Forces with Germany According to the Documents of the Federal Archives] (in German). Jena, Germany: Scherzers Militaer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2. V polovině září stejného roku byl jmenován velitelem 4. roty u 22. záložního praporu myslivců ( Reserve-Jäger-Battalion Nr. 22 ) s níž se probojoval až za ruské linie a podařilo se mu zničit předsunutou nepřátelskou rotu. Dr. Dan McDonald, one of the founders of BDM and a leading figure in the technology of engagement simu Pending the answer of minute hours - eternity seem hours. In the meantime our troops which has got under impact conducted battles, not being in a condition to stop the opponent.

The most full description of battle in area of Sovkhoz (State Farm) «Red Star» or the same, – Sovkhoz 79, - was given by the American historian professor Russel H.S. Stolfi The Chir front was quiet on 14 December 1942. The next day, 15 December 1942, Knobelsdorff moved the 11th Panzer Division south from Nizhne Kalinovski to Nizhne Chirskaya near the influence of the Chir and Don Rivers. Five days earlier, the 4th Panzer Army, with the 57th Panzer Corps as its spearhead, had begun the German drive toward Stalingrad to relieve the 6th Army. Knobelsdorff had the mission to advance with the 11th Panzer Division across the bridge still held by the Germans in Colonel Adam's bridgehead and support the drive of the 57th Panzer Corps. General Otis previously commanded the 1st Armored Division in VII Corps and served as head of the US Army Combined Arms Combat Development Activity at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Educational battle on May, 19 1980 (it is clear, that it was educational battle) is a post - WWII a history.It seemed, and the nature was up in arms against us. At night with 20 for November, 21 mercury in the thermometer has fallen up to a mark a minus of 20 degrees. Thawn for a day snow a captivity the bark has turned in ice. It is road, the connecting Golubinskaja from the highway, going along Don, became smooth as a mirror. Was terrible to think that to our heavy machines is necessary to climb up on this abrupt slope. But while business has not reached before yet.