Wednesday, November 21, 2012

This Week in History



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Day 3 of Operation Uranus the encirclement of the German 6th army on the nineteenth of November the Red Army counter attacked the German positions in the city of Stalingrad. This event not only changed the course of the battle it changed the course of the whole war as one of the first major reversals to take place.

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Operation torch , November 8, 1942, the first major joint allied landing operation of the second world War. Ceasing the french colonies in Morocco. The operation opened a second front in North Africa and all but ensured an allied victory there.


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