Eastern FrontSOUTHERN SECTORAfter heavy losses, the 1st Tank Army is disbanded, its skeletal divisions being incorporated into the 62nd Army. The Soviets attempt to bebuild their broken units, reinforcing the 62nd, 1st Guards, 21st, 63rd and 4th Tank Armies. With the Soviet forces in disarray, the 6th Army captures bridgeheads over the Don at Vertyachi and Luchinshkoy with the 76th and 295th Infantry Divisions. The 62nd and 4th Tank Armies launch repeated counterattacks in an effort to destroy the bridgehead but fails. Army Group A resumes its attacks, Yessentuki, Kislovodsk and Pyatigorsk falling to Group Kleist. |
| [ August 16th - August 18th] |