Battle for the Ukraine: The

During the winter of 1943-1944, the Red Army mounted major offensive operations against Hitler's Wehrmacht. By January 1944 the Red Army had penetrated the vaunted "Eastern Wall" along the Dnepr river and was preparing to lunge deep into the Ukraine. In mid-January 1944, Stalin ordered his 1st and 2nd Ukrainian Fronts to crush German forces defending the last portion of the Eastern Wall in German hands, the salient around Korsun'-Shevchenkovskii. The ensuing offensive destroyed a major portion of two German army corps and precipitated the subsequent fighting withdrawal of German forces from the entire Ukraine. This volume is an unexpurgated translation of the originally classified Soviet General Staff Study No.14.

List of Maps

vii

Editor's Foreword

ix

Foreword by Lt-Gen. P.P. Vechny

xiii

1. The Korsun'-Shevchenkovskii Operation

1

(32)

General situation and operational plan

1

(8)

Preparation of the operation

9

(6)

Course of combat operations

15

(1)

Encirclement of the German Korsun'-Shevchenkovskii grouping (24 January-3 February)

15

(8)

Destruction of the German Korsun'-Shevchenkovskii grouping (4-17 February)

23

(7)

Overall results

30

(3)

2. German Defensive Battles in the Korsun'-Shevchenkovskii Region

33

(14)

Grouping of encircled forces and characteristics of the enemy defense

33

(6)

Combat operations of the encircled enemy grouping

39

(8)

3. Combat Operations of the 5th Guards Don Red Banner Cavalry Corps in the Korsun'-Shevchenkovskii Operation

47

(19)

Cavalry corps operations during the encirclement

47

(11)

Cavalry corps operations during the liquidation of the encircled forces

58

(6)

Conclusions

64

(2)

4. Air Operations during the Korsun'-Shevchenkovskii Operation

66

(21)

Preparation of the operation

66

(8)

Air combat operations

74

(10)

Results of combat air operations

84

(3)

Editor's Appendices

87

(101)

Index

188

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Battle for the Ukraine: The Korsun'-Shevchenkovskii Operation

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