The Viaz'ma Catastrophe, 1941: The Red Army's Disastrous Stand against Operation Typhoon by Lev Lopukhovsky

Author:Lev Lopukhovsky [Lopukhovsky, Lev]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HISTORY / Military / World War II
ISBN: 9781910294185
Publisher: Helion and Company
Published: 2013-08-01T00:00:00+00:00

Zakharov and Mazepov drove off in Sandalov’s vehicle – without Sandalov – and just who else might have dared to dash away in the same vehicle carrying the Briansk Front’s chief of staff?! After the vehicles of the operations, intelligence and cryptographic departments departed, Sandalov remained with a group of 12 officers. At this time, several enemy tanks headed in their direction, firing from their main guns and machine guns. The group fled into the woods. The tanks returned to the road, and the firing soon ceased.

Sandalov continues:

The German motorized unit drove off toward Briansk. These were units of the XXXXVII Motorized Corps. … The enemy unit wasn’t suspecting that it had stumbled upon a front command post. Many of our rear units and services were situated on the Briansk-Karachev road. Motorized enemy companies securing the movement of their forces were chasing away our rear units into the depth of the forest. Apparently, even our command post had been taken as a rear unit.140

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