Tuesday Sep 06, 2022

Operation Typhoon: Episode 9

German's final, final assault on the capital of the USSR in November 1941. 

Map 1: The Battle of Moscow, November 1941.

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Map 20: The bigger picture. 

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Source: U.S. Army archives. 

Soviets fighting back during "offensive weather":

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Rasputitsa: 

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Defense of Moscow: 

Women militia training in Moscow, fall 1941:

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New T-34 tanks roll off the assembly line, 1941

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Soviet air power: 

The Yakovlev Yak fighter

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Ilyushin Il-2 in flight near Moscow, December 1941

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Winter 

Abandoned German vehicles in the snow, on the highway from Volokolamsk to Moscow, December 1941:

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Wrecked Panzer III, December 1941:

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