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Battle Lines Photos and captions on front line fighting on all fronts. Major battles like Tobruk, Stalingrad, Tarawa as well as small unit actions.

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Old March 20th, 2008, 07:39 AM
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Stalingrad-Hell on Earth


The sign reads: To Stalingrad!



Early in the battle retreating Soviet troops erected this medical skeleton to greet incoming Germans

Both sides enjoyed the joke, but soon the dead in Stalingrad would far outnumber the living



Stalingrad became a fight among ruins, as with this smashed tower being reclaimed by Soviet soldiers...



...And this shattered street occupied by Heer troops.



Forbidden to evacuate, Stalingrad's citizens bore caves into surrounding hillsides to escape the fighting
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Old March 21st, 2008, 07:15 PM
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Re: Stalingrad-Hell on Earth

Here's a color picture of Wehrmacht Infantrie in Stalingrad.

"Near the Tractor Factory"

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Re: Stalingrad-Hell on Earth



Wehrmacht assembling in the ruins




Early in the attack on the city, Heer troops trying to flank defenders
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Re: Stalingrad-Hell on Earth



The city as it looked toward the end of the battle



Soviet troops braving a move across open ground




Luftwaffe troops in the city fighting as infantry




Russian troops pushing to tighten an ever shrinking ring
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Re: Stalingrad-Hell on Earth



Mid-way in the battle Heer troops walk through the rubble
The ability to stroll in the open like this would not last



Desperate fighting, as with these Soviet troops, would become the rule for both sides in Stalingrad
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Re: Stalingrad-Hell on Earth

Buy Jason Mark's books. Read them. Your perception of 'hell on earth' will be sharply enhanced.
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Buy Jason Mark's books. Read them. Your perception of 'hell on earth' will be sharply enhanced.
Actually, I have a pretty good picture of what it was like. At one time I had a "living" reference.
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Soviet troops moving through the rubble




A Russian gun firing from the behind the protection of a girder
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Re: Stalingrad-Hell on Earth



Early in the battle, German troops move toward Soviet defensive positions





Toward the end of the battle, Russian troops move to close the circle around German positions
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A former Russian tank trap, now German trench line on the outskirts of the city
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