August 1942

Eastern Front

German mobile units enter Kotelnikovo as they push toward Stalingrad.

The Stalingrad Front is dismembered, being split up into 2 new formations. A smaller Stalingrad Front is created and a new Southeast Front formed. The Stalingrad Front, with the 63rd, 21st, 62nd, 1st Guards, 4th Tank and 16th Air Armies, is placed under the command of Gen Gordov, while Gen Eremenko takes over the Southeast Front, which deploys the 64th, 57th and 51st Armies and the 8th Air Army. Tolbukhin's 57th Army has only recently deployed on the southern approaches to Stalingrad. The boundary of the 2 fronts is along the Tsaritsyn River in Stalingrad and on the Kalach.