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The Men Who Almost Won Stalingrad | Battle of Stalingrad WW2

The Men Who Almost Won Stalingrad November 11, 1942. Five pioneer battalions launch Operation Hubertus — the last German assault on Stalingrad. Among them, 2. Kompanie, Pionier-Bataillon 305: thirty men with demolition charges and flamethrowers, fighting room by room through the ruins of the Barrikady Gun Factory. They came within a hundred metres of the Volga. They never crossed them. This is their story. — SOURCES Jason Mark, "Island of Fire: The Battle for the Barrikady Gun Factory in Stalingrad" (Leaping Horseman Books, 2006) Jason Mark, "Into Oblivion: Kharkov to Stalingrad — The Story of Pionier-Bataillon 305" (Leaping Horseman Books, 2009) Vasily Chuikov, "The Battle for Stalingrad" (1963) David Glantz & Jonathan House, "To the Gates of Stalingrad" / "Armageddon in Stalingrad" (University Press of Kansas, 2009) Antony Beevor, "Stalingrad" (Viking, 1998) 305. Infanterie-Division veterans' accounts — Konrad Rettenmaier, "Das Ende der 305. (Bodensee) Infanterie-Division in Stalingrad," Alte Kameraden German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv) — 305.ID war diary fragments Soviet 62nd Army operational reports, November 1942 All names of officers and units are historical. The narrator is fictional but based on documented personnel of Pionier-Bataillon 305. Music By: 'Decoherence' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au