Thread: What if the German armies in Stalingrad attempted to break out?
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Old March 28th, 2007, 07:55 PM
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Default Re: What if the German armies in Stalingrad attempted to break out?
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Originally Posted by T. A. Gardner View Post
If anything, what the Germans really needed were mechanized engineers with equipment that could have built and maintained good airfields and landing aids making it possible to efficently supply the pocket. If this were the case, then the Stalingrad pocket might have turned out like Demyansk (sp) the year before where an airlift was successful.
I think this would be totally impossible, since the Red Army was well equipped with AA gun.
How did three quarter of a million man move in absolute secrecy? What happened to the German reconnaissance effort?
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