The Stalingrad Front
The Stalingrad Front’s line now stretched for 700 kilometres (almost 440 miles), so to make it more manageable it was divided on 5 August, Gordov retaining its northern half, the other becoming a new South-East Front under Colonel-General A. I. Yeremenko. Each had four armies (a Soviet army was roughly equivalent to a German Korps) […]
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