Tatsinskaya Airbase

Russia / Rostov / Uglegorskiy /
 Second World War 1939-1945, interesting place, former air force base
This was the main German airfield for resupplying the encircled Sixth Army in Stalingrad. On December 24, 1942, T-34 tanks from the Soviet 24th Tank Corps attacked the airfield, taking the ground crew completely by surprise. 72 aircraft, 10% of the Luftwaffe's transport fleet, were destroyed on the ground.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatsinskaya_Airfield
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Coordinates:   48°10'6"N   41°16'44"E

Comments

  • - 86 aircrafts were destroyed at that attack
  • There were some railway trains with new aircrafts and tanks at Tatsinskaya station and they were destroyed too. Total score is about 400 destroyed aircrafts of different types. 86 - it's the number of Ju-52 transport aircrafts Germans have lost.
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