August 1942

Eastern Front

The Luftwaffe appears over Stalingrad again, bombing the city and reducing its buildings to rubble. Fires rage out of control along the western bank of the Volga as oil tanks in the northern industrial suburbs burn. Whole stretches of the river seem to be on fire as burning oil flows into the water, blanketing the city with a pall of choking, black smoke. In the southern suburbs, Tsaritsyn and Dar Gova are largely destroyed, the majority of their wooden buildings burning to the ground.

The 3rd and 60th Motorized Divisions of the XIV Panzer Corps, struggle to hold of Soviet attacks along the Don-Volga land bridge while launching attacks with the 16th Panzer into the northern suburbs of Stalingrad, With the infantry of the 6th Army pounding the 62nd Army west of the city, Lopatin requests permission to pull his army back to the middle defense line. Eremenko is planning to counterattack around Vertyachi.

The advance of the 4th Panzer Army again bogs down at Tundutovo, Hoth's panzers suffering further heavy losses.