Operation Mars
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Operation Mars, also known as the Second Rzhev-Sychevka Offensive Operation, was the codename for an offensive launched by Soviet forces against German forces during World War II. It took place betwee
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Soviet collective farmers hand over KV-1S tanks to their crews.
Walter Model
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Otto Moritz Walter Model was a German Generalfeldmarschall during World War II. Although he was a hard-driving, aggressive panzer commander early in the war, Model became best known as a practitioner
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…Luki salients, Russian SFSR Result German victory Belligerents Soviet Union Germany Commanders and leaders Georgy Zhukov Ivan Konev Maksim Purkayev Walter Model Günther von Kluge Strength 702,923 personnel, 1,718 tanks 3 combined corps (with 13 infantry divisions and 2 paratrooper divisions) 2 panzer corps (5…
Model, c. 1942/43
Model (centre) on the Eastern Front, July 1941
Model with the overall commander of the 2nd Panzer Army and his direct superior, Heinz Guderian, in 1941
German armoured vehicles during Operation Citadel, summer 1943