What was the battle of stallingrad?

Answer 1

The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in southwestern Russia. The battle took place between 23 August 1942 and 2 February 1943. It was the largest battle on the Eastern Front and was marked by brutality and disregard for military and civilian casualties. It is among the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare, with the higher estimates of combined casualties amounting to nearly two million. The heavy losses inflicted on the German army made it a turning point in the war. After the Battle of Stalingrad, German forces never recovered their earlier strength, and attained no further strategic victories in the East.

The German offensive to capture Stalingrad commenced in late summer 1942, and was supported by intensive Luftwaffe bombing which reduced much of the city to rubble. The German offensive eventually became mired in building-to-building fighting; and despite controlling over 90% of the city at times, the Wehrmacht was unable to dislodge the last Soviet defenders clinging tenaciously to the west bank of the Volga River.

 

In November 1942, the Red Army launched Operation Uranus; a two-pronged attack targeted at the inferior Romanian and Italian forces which were protecting the German 6th Army flanks. The success of these attacks caused the weakly held flanks to collapse and the 6th Army to be cut off and surrounded inside Stalingrad. As the Russian winter set in, the 6th Army weakened rapidly from cold, starvation and ongoing Soviet attacks. Command ambiguity coupled with Adolf Hitler's resolute belief in the "power of the will" and the value of "standing fast" further compounded the German predicament. Eventually, the failure to break the encirclement by relieving German forces, coupled with the failure of re-supply by air, caused the final collapse. By early February 1943, German resistance in Stalingrad had ceased and the remaining elements of the surrounded 6th Army had either surrendered or had been destroyed.

 

The battle was involved between Axis (Germany, Italy, Romania and Hungary) and against the USSR

 

Here were the strengths

 

Axis

700,000 soldiers (400,000 germans, 200,000 romanians and 100,000 italians)

10,250 artillery pieces

500 tanks

750 aircraft

 

 

USSR:

1,143,500 men

13,451 artillery pieces

894 tanks

1,115 Aircraft

 

 

The casualties of this battle was

 

Axis:

750,000 killed, missing or wounded

91,000 captured

900 aircraft (including 274 transports and 165 bombers used as transports)

1,500 tanks

6,000 artillery pieces

total of 841,000 casualties

 

USSR:

478,741 killed or missing

650,878 wounded and sick

40,000 civilians dead

4,341 tanks

15,728 artillery pieces

2,769 combat aircraft

Total of 1,129,619 casualties

Answer 2

Essentially, Stalingrad was the first major victory for Russian Armed Forces in World War II. As we all should know, they were extremely poorly equipped. (Very few even received a weapon.) What happened was, as the Germans pushed East, the Russian men hid in the houses in Stalingrad after it had been bombed out, and ambushed the Germans; a strategy that proved invaluable for the Russians.

Answer 3

A major battle in Stalingrad, Russia in August 23, 1942. General Friedrich Paulus led the attack. It was a major battle in WWII for Russia.