October 1943

Eastern Front

The IX Corps, hastily transferred from the 4th Army to the 3rd Panzer Army, launches a fierce counterattack, bringing both the 3rd and 4th Shock Armies to a standstill. Repeated Soviet counterattacks fail to push the salient any farther as the Germans stabilize their positions.

There is heavy fighting at Taman as the last remnants of the German 17th Army evacuates the Kuban peninsula.