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WWII On This Day: November 11

What happened on November 11 during World War II? This date brings together 1 event from 1942, with period photographs and links to the full operations documented across WW2 Theatres.

1942
Ruins of a captured factory sector in Stalingrad, photographed 16 November 1942.
Ruins of a captured factory sector in Stalingrad, photographed 16 November 1942. Bundesarchiv Bild 183-B22703 / Herber · CC BY-SA 3.0 DE Source
Battle of Stalingrad

Sixth Army makes its last major assault in the city

Four hours before daylight on 11 November, LI Corps opened another concentrated attack east of the Barrikady gun factory. Five combat-engineer battalions reinforced infantry formations that had been worn down by two months of urban fighting. The immediate objective was to eliminate the remaining Soviet bridgeheads along the Volga bank. German assault groups reached the river in another narrow sector and took additional buildings, but Sixth Army described the result as only a partial success. Soviet troops remained in separated pockets, supported by artillery across the river and by crossings…

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