May 1942

Eastern Front

Repeated futile attacks fail to provide an exit for the Soviet forces from the Izyum pocket. Heaps of killed and wounded litter the battlefield while the pocket is further reduced, the Soviet troops being hemmed into a space 10 miles deep by 2 miles long. Masses of Soviet soldiers are by this time surrendering to the German troops. During the bitter fighting, Gen Gorodnyansky of the 6th Army is killed.