February 1943

Eastern Front

There is heavy fighting on the Lovat as the 1st Shock Army tries to close off the much reduced salient.

Central Front, newly committed to this sector, throws its 65th and 2nd Tank Armies into an attack toward Bryansk but is held up by the German 2nd Army.

Heavy fightin erupts at Lozovaya as SS Totenkopf and SS Das Reich attack the town. The 6th Panzer advances east to cut off the Soviet line of retreat. At Barvenkovo the XL Panzer Corps fights its way into the city despite ferocious resistance.