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On Tues. 22 Sep 1942 The Soviet 62nd Army was split in half by the Germ.....

1942-09-22

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The Soviet 62nd Army was split in half by the German advance down the Taritsa River gorge in Stalingrad in southern Russia, and the German troops now held nearly the entire southern half of the city

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