Cool, glad you found them McQ59! Yeah, it's size leads me to believe that it's suppose to represent Pitomnik airfield which was the largest airfield inside the Stalingrad Cauldron. Most of the transports landed there during the Stalingrad Airlift and I know it was westward from Gumrak. In the Stalingrad book I'm using for research in my upcoming historicals, there is a two page graphic that lays out the encirclement of the 6th Army and both Pitomnik and Gumrak are illustrated in there. When the Germans lost Pitomnik on Jan. 16th, they shifted to Gumrak which in turn was overrun a week later. I'm planning on putting those two battles into my historicals, but I just haven't gotten that far ahead in developing the missions yet. I'm currently working on the mission that will cover the launch of Operation Uranus.
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04-28-2011, 11:56 PM
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