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| 1942 | Chuikov, Vassili |  |
| Sep Stalingrad Put in charge of defendng Stalingrad |
| 18th Nov Stalingrad Crushes the Romanians & begins to entrap von Paulus 's Army |
| 1942 | Rokossovsky, Konstantin Konstantinovich | |
| Stalingrad Commands Russian forces on the Don River Front |
| Aug Stalingrad The Russians outflank & encircle the German 6th, 9th & 4th Panzer Armies |
| 1942 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| 19th July Stalingrad Orders the Stalingrad Defence Committee to prepare the city for war immediately |
| Aug Stalingrad Gathers 190,000 men, 350 tanks, 340 planes & 8,000 guns on the Staingrad front |
| 19th Nov Stalingrad The Red Army begins to encircle the German forces besieging Stalingrad |
| 1942 | Timoshenko, Semyon | |
| July Stalingrad Moved up to the north-west Front |
| 1942 | Yeremenko, Andrei | |
| 4th Aug Stalingrad Arrives in Stalingrad to assume command |
| 1942 | Zhukov, Georgi Konstantinovich | |
| 19th Nov Stalingrad Leads the attack on the nth & sth flanks of the Germans |
| 22nd Nov Stalingrad Captures the supply bridge at Kalach |
| 23rd Nov Stalingrad The 300,000 force of the German Sixth Army is encircled |
| 23rd Nov Stalingrad Zhukov begins attacking the German 5th Army & 4th Panzer Army in the rear |
| 25th Dec Stalingrad Zhukov drives Hoth's army back across Kotelnikov |
| 25th Dec Stalingrad Zhukov drives the German forces in the nth beyond the Chir & Aksay |
| 1943 | Ivanovich, Fyodor | |
| 1st Feb Stalingrad Personally accepts the surrender of Marshal Paulus & his 6th Army |
| 1943 | Rokossovsky, Konstantin Konstantinovich | |
| 8th Jan Stalingrad Rokossovsky sends in a request for the German 6th Army to surrender, this is refused |
| 10th Jan Stalingrad The 65th Army advances 5 miles in the first day |
| 21st Jan Gumrak The last German airfield at Gumrak is captured |
| 31st Jan Stalingrad The Germans under Paulus surrender Stalingrad to Rokossovsky |
| 1943 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| 31st Jan Stalingrad During the battle the Germans lose 600,000 & the Russians 400,000 |
| 31st Jan Stalingrad Paulus surrenders the German 6th Army |
| 2nd Feb Stalingrad The remainder of the German forces in Stalingrad lay down their arms |
| 1943 | Zhukov, Georgi Konstantinovich | |
| 31st Jan Stalingrad Since Zhkov's counter-attack 32 Axis Divs & 3 Axis Brigades have been destroyed |
| 31st Jan Stalingrad The German 6th Army surrenders |
