Table of Data Points
1942-01-05 | Soviets at Eupatoria | German forces prevent Soviets from landing troops in Southern Ukraine | Read about 'Soviets at Eupatoria' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Soviets at Eupatoria' | ||
1941-12-05 | Moscow Winter | Eighty-eight Soviet divisions, shielded by a blizzard, attack sixty-seven German divisions spread along a five hundred mile front. German forces, ill equipped to deal with the Russian winter, are pushed back. | Read about 'Moscow Winter' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Moscow Winter' | ||
1941-11-07 | Armenia Sunk | Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimeas hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking. | Read about 'Armenia Sunk' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Armenia Sunk' | ||
1941-11-06 | Stalin Address | Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his three-decade rule. He states that even though 350,000 troops were killed in German attacks so far, the Germans had lost 4.5 million soldiers and that Soviet victory was near. | Read about 'Stalin Address' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Stalin Address' | ||
1941-10-30 | 1942-07-04 | Siege of Sevastopol | Despite numerous setbacks and high casualties, with the help of highly effective aerial bombardment (to make up for a shortage in artillery), Axis forces capture the port city. | Read about 'Siege of Sevastopol' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Siege of Sevastopol' | |
1941-10-03 | Oryol Occupied | Oryol is occupied by Wehrmacht troops. It would not be liberated until the 5th of August 1943, after being almost completely destroyed during the Battle of Kursk. | Read about 'Oryol Occupied' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Oryol Occupied' | ||
1941-09-08 | Lenningrad Encircled | The last land connection to the besieged city was severed when Germans troops reached Lake Ladoga at Orekhovets. The city would remained under siege for 872 days. | Read about 'Lenningrad Encircled' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Lenningrad Encircled' | ||
1941-08-16 | Mykolaiv Falls | Troops from Army Group South capture Soviet naval base in the Black Sea port of Mykolaiv. | Read about 'Mykolaiv Falls' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Mykolaiv Falls' | ||
1941-08-08 | 1941-10-16 | Siege of Odessa | It took 73 days and 93,000 casualties for the Romanian army and elements of the German 11th army to take Odessa. | Read about 'Siege of Odessa' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Siege of Odessa' | |
1941-07-15 | 1941-08-08 | Uman | The German encirclement of the 6th and 12th Soviet armies. This occured during the initial offensive operations of Rundstedt's Army Group South during Operation Barbarossa. | Read about 'Uman' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Uman' |
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