September 1942

Eastern Front

The attacks by the 6th Army and the 4th Panzer Army press the 62nd and 74th Armies back into Stalingrad. Heavy fighting rages in the Mnina suburb where the XLVIII Panzer Corps is punching its way through to the Volga. Already to the north in the Rynok and Spartakovka suburbs, the Germans hold a 5-mile stretch of the Volga river bank, bringing artillery fire to bear upon Soviet river traffic.

In the Caucasus, the 17th Army is fighting inside Novorossiysk, while elements of the 47th Army continue to resist in the cement factory.