Hoth's Panzers Got 30 Miles From Stalingrad. One Soviet Army Beat Them to the River

Hoth's Panzers Got 30 Miles From Stalingrad. One Soviet Army Beat Them to the River On the night of the nineteenth of December, nineteen forty-two, Colonel Walther von Hünersdorff drove his lead panzers onto the only bridge across the Myshkova River. The bridge stood at a village called Vasilevka. The matchup, laid bare: Why Hoth's LVII Panzer Corps drove out of Kotelnikovo on 12 December 1942 to break the Stalingrad ring How Vasilevsky won Stalin's yes for 2nd Guards Army at 5 a.m. on 13 December The march on foot: 25 to 30 miles a day in hard frost to reach the Myshkova River first Verkhne-Kumsky, the Vasilevka bridge, and the bridgehead 6th Panzer never broke out of Little Saturn, Tatsinskaya, and the 23 December order that turned 6th Panzer away The matchup numbers on Winter Storm 1942 are pinned up top. Subscribe for more tanks that had the edge and still lost, and name the next one below. #OperationWinterStorm #Stalingrad #WW2 #EasternFront #6thPanzer #RedArmy