Video: Germans enter Rostow (at 4:47)

(Thursday, July 23, 1942, during Case Blue, the German summer offensive of 1942, part of the Eastern Front of World War II) — With heavy air support from the Ju 87s of Sturzkampfgeschwader 77, Germany’s Army Group A today recaptured Rostov, the “gate to the Caucasus,” without much resistance.