Russians launch offensive against Germans along the Don front 70 years ago today (1942)


Video: Nov. 19, 1942 (at 33:04)

(Thursday, November 19, 1942, 7:20 a.m. Moscow time, during the Battle of Stalingrad, part of the Eastern Front of World War II) — The Red Army today launched Operation Uranus, a two-pronged attack targeting the weak Romanian and Hungarian forces protecting Germany forces in and around Stalingrad east of the Don River.


Video: 'Blitzkrieg to the Bomb' (Operation Uranus at 32:14)