The Luftwaffe aircraft carpet bombing the Russian city of Stalingrad below.
Soviet soldiers landing on the beach heads of Volga by rafts and boats made of wood.
The Soviet 284th Rifle Division after landing on the beaches of Volga. The famous sniper, Vasily Zaitsev was also from this Division.
Vasily Zaitsev was a Soviet sniper with over 680 kills. 255 soldiers and officers in 1942, 32 more soldiers in the same year, and an estimated 400 kills in 1943 while in the city of Stalingrad.
The Russian propaganda shown (to the right) portrays a Soviet soldier holding back or holding up the Nazi Germany war-machine(the tank) with the city of Stalingrad below. The Soviet Union had the war support of Stalingrad, the city made tanks and munitions for the Red Army and the other branches of the Russian military.
The German forces were fighting in Stalingrad against the Soviet Union. The Germans thought the city of Stalingrad would fall soon after their assault.
The Germans had the first hand of offense. The 6th Army and some of the 4th Panzer Division Army and also supported by the bombing of the Luftwaffe were held to the task to over-run Stalingrad.
Stalingrad Political Cartoons
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler caught in a bear trap by Soviet forces at Stalingrad in the winter of 1942-43. Hitler's failure to capture Stalingrad was the turning point in the war in the Eastern Front.