OPERATION “URANUS”

19 NOVEMBER— 24 DECEMBER 1942 12 NOVEMBER 1942 British Commonwealth forces retake Tobruk as they pursue Rommel in North Africa. 25 NOVEMBER 1942 Launch of Operation “Mars” against German Army Group Centre results in heavy Soviet losses. 30 NOVEMBER 1942 Battle of Tassafaronga when an inferior Japanese naval force inflicts heavy losses on the US Navy in the Guadalcanal campaign. 11 DECEMBER 1942 Hitler insists that the surrounded 6th Army must remain where it is in Stalingrad. The view from Moscow in the autumn of 1942, as German forces pressed into Stalingrad and across the Caucasus region, threatening to cut the Volga and seize Soviet oil, looked increasingly desperate. Stalin and many of his senior commanders still assumed that German forces were planning a third operation to take the Soviet…

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