Created by Tom Horn on 1 Feb 2010, Last Update on 1 Feb 2010

Operation Uranus begins - 19 Nov 1942

Soviet troops are poised to attack the flanks of the German 6th army besieging Stalingrad. The attacks would strike the poorly equipped and thinly spread Romanian Third Army in the north and the Romanian IV Corps in the south.

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Tags : Soviet Union,Germany,Romania,Land,Europe,Combat

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