January 10

  • RED ARMY TIGHTENS STALINGRAD NOOSE

    ByNorm Haskett Reading Time: 6 minutes

    Outside Stalingrad, Southern Russia • January 10, 1943 The contest between the German Wehrmacht (armed forces) and the Red Army for pos­ses­sion of Stalin­grad (August 23, 1942, to Febru­ary 2, 1943) proved to be the most stra­te­gically decisive battle on Ger­many’s Eastern Front and arguably of World War II. Known today as Volgo­grad, Stalin­grad (popu­la­tion 400,000) occupied the west…

  • SOVIETS PREPARE TO ANNIHILATE AXIS ARMIES

    ByNorm Haskett Reading Time: 5 minutes

    Stalingrad, Soviet Union · January 10, 1943 On this date in 1943 the Soviets launched Operation Ring, their name for the action that tightened the noose around the 250,000-plus soldiers of the German Sixth Army trapped in Stalin­grad (now Volgo­grad). Operation Ring had been pre­ceded by Oper­a­tion Ura­nus (Novem­ber 19–23, 1942), a one-million-man-plus Soviet offen­sive targeting…