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Red October Factory, Stalingrad 1942-10-23 (19 others)

Overview:

Even as heavy fighting raged in and around the Red Barricades factory, about 1 km to the south large German formations were being readied to assault the Roter Oktober Metallurgic Werke (Red October Steel Works). Tasked with this tough mission were elements of Panzer-Division 14 (on the north flank), the relatively fresh Infanterie-Division 79 (in the center) and, further south, Jäger-Division 100, as well as units of two Sturmgeschütz sections (244 and 245). The Germans had set 23 October as “X-Day”. The unenviable task of defending the shell-pocked ground coveted by the Germans was given to the General Stepan Savelevich Guriev’s 39th Guards Rifle Division, the 100th Flamethrower Company, elements of the 84th and 54th Tank Brigades, as well as impressed factory workers. As usual, both sides would have seemingly ceaseless volumes of artillery support, and the Germans had also committed waves of dive bombers.

Defender: Russian (39th Guards Rifle Division)  

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