“Remember Badanov!”

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“Remember Badanov!”23 January 1943 was released the first city in Ukraine - Starobelsk

“Remember Badanov, do not forget Badanov, help him out at any cost!” Military historians are probably well aware of this phrase, which the Supreme Commander I. Stalin said on December days 1942 of the year. And he didn’t scatter with these words, but who remembers Badanov now? Almost no one heard anything today about the feat of the 24 tank corps commanded by General Badanov (in the photo). But it was his tank crews who played an exceptionally important role in the battle of Stalingrad. As a result of the victory at Stalingrad, conditions arose for the Soviet troops to launch a general offensive and liberate the occupied territories of the Soviet Union. But that was later.

And at the end of July 1942, the 4th tank the army of Colonel-General Friedrich von Goth left the Caucasian Front and moved from the south through the Kalmyk steppe to the bend of the Volga south of Stalingrad. The Soviet command understood that the offensive of Goth entails the greatest threat to the city. After all, his tanks were already beyond the Don, while the 6th army of Paulus fought west of the river. If Goth, advancing from the Kalmyk steppe, were able to take control of the bend of the Volga with dominant heights in the area of ​​Krasnoarmeysk and Beketovka, the fate of Stalingrad could be resolved, and the Volga is the main supply artery, along which not only American aid flowed from the Persian Gulf, but also food and military contingents from the south - would be cut.

On July 17, the vanguard of the 6 of the German army met with our advanced units of the 62 and 64 armies advanced to the distant approaches to Stalingrad. Division A.I. Rodimtseva, the former 3 airborne corps, was the first to arrive in Stalingrad. By the end of the defensive period, the troops of the 62 Army held a bridgehead in areas north of the Tractor Plant (the Gorokhov group), the Barricades plant (“Lyudnikova Island”) and in the north-eastern part of Stalingrad. To the south, the 64 army of Lieutenant-General M.S. Shumilova, and further 57-th and 51-th armies.

On the morning of November 19 in the morning of 8.50 after 1 hours of 20 minutes of artillery preparation, the Soviet forces of the South-Western and Don fronts launched an offensive. In the evening east of Kalach, in the rear of the two German armies of Paulus and Goth, a meeting of advanced Soviet tank units marching from the south and north. As a result, between the Don and Volga rivers, the 330-thousandth German group was surrounded.

The entourage of the Stalingrad group of Germans was completed within a hundred hours. The Russians, at last, felt the taste of the long-awaited “lightning war” themselves.

Prior to this, the German leadership with lust looked in the direction of the Baku oil and passages in the Transcaucasus, on the Great Silk Road intercontinental route. Coming to Alexandria, Colonel-General Erich Rommel, the “desert fox”, was already exploding along the coast of the Mediterranean in Africa towards the Middle East and Iranian oil. His African corps (from 21 February 1942 tank army "Africa") captured a number of strategic cities, and then rushed deep into Egypt, to the Nile. In those days, the British retreated with such speed that the German advanced motorized units did not have time to pursue them. Russians fought to the last ...

On November 21, the headquarters of von Manstein’s 11 Army was ordered to take command of the 4 Tank Army, the 6 Army, and the remnants of the 3 Romanian Army. It was in Starobelsk, where the headquarters of Army Group “B” was, that on November X E. Manstein arrived to discuss the situation with the group commander, Colonel-General von Weichs, and his head of staff, General von Sodenstern.

The choice of Starobelsk’s German leadership for the sake of better providing communications for an offensive in the Caucasus led to the headquarters being at an excessive distance from the front, largely suspended from directing the actions of Paul’s 6 army.

It is not by chance that the capture of Starobelsk by Soviet troops 23 on January 1943 of the year, the first Ukrainian city liberated from the invaders and acting as the capital of Ukraine until the liberation of Kiev, is considered the end of hostilities in the Stalingrad operation.

Manstein wrote later: “The 57 tank corps stubbornly made its way to the army of Paulus. By December 24, the entire 33 kilometer remained until the army of Paulus. The advanced units of the 57 TK could already see the glow of the Stalingrad front on the horizon ... On December 23, in the afternoon, the command of the army group was finally forced, with a heavy heart, to straighten out more than a precarious position on its left flank by transferring there necessary forces. ... We lost the airfield at Tatsinskaya and thus lost the opportunity to supply the 6 army. ” What happened?

The fact is that I6 December in the middle reaches of the Don began a counterattack of the Soviet troops. Two days of fierce fighting - and the front of the enemy is broken. Four tank corps (17, 18, 24, 25) rushed into the resulting gap. The key role fell to the 24 tank corps of Major General V.M. Badanova. His tank crews fought on December 19 after breaking through the Italian line of defense. For six days, the corps passed 240 kilometers into combat. Further, under the protection of the Tatsinska garrison, there was the largest Hitler air base and warehouses, a railway line, on which the supply of German troops on the external front of the encirclement near Stalingrad was based, took the beginning of a powerful “air bridge” to Paulus's army.

The fascists were busy with the festive Christmas hassles. The “gift” for them was very unexpected. Here is what the Hitlerite pilot Kurt Streit wrote in 1952 in the West German newspaper Deutsche zoldaten Zeitung in the article “On those who broke from the underworld or the Blood Bath in Tatsinskaya”: “December 24 morning of 1942.

In the east, a weak dawn illuminates the gray horizon. At this point, the Soviet tanks, firing, suddenly rush into the village and the airfield. Airplanes immediately flash like torches. Flames raging everywhere.

Projectiles are torn, ammunition soars into the air. Trucks are rushing around, and desperate people are running between them.

Who will give the order, where to go to the pilots? Starting in the direction of Novocherkassk is all that the general managed to order.

Madness begins. From all sides go to the runway and start the aircraft. All this happens under fire and in the light of fires. The sky spread a scarlet bell over the thousands who perish, whose faces express insanity. Here one Yu-52, not having time to rise, crashes into a tank and explodes with a terrible roar. Already in the air, the "Junkers" are confronted with the "Heinkel" and fly apart into small pieces along with their passengers. The roar of tanks and aircraft engines is mixed with explosions, gunfire and machine-gun fires in a monstrous symphony. All this creates a complete picture of the real underworld. ”

Can you imagine how dozens of transport aircraft are burning, a significant part of the weight of which is fuel ?! It was as if in the east the Sun had risen before the time! As if a miracle happened on the longest night of the year among the unjustly celebrating invaders! The movement of the entire mass of the warring forces moved in the opposite direction - to Berlin!

Few of the invaders managed to escape that morning. At 17.00 pm on December 25, 1942 Badanov reported to the front headquarters about the capture of the village of Tatsinskaya. At two airfields adjacent to each other, there were more than 300 combat and transport aircraft. Tankers destroyed them from guns and machine guns, smashed their tails, immediately throwing a multi-ton colossus at them. A fuel train and a train in which 50 more new aircraft were disassembled on open platforms were destroyed on the railroad tracks. German in one day aviation suffered such damage that she had never experienced in all the years of the war.

E. Manstein: “Hitler ordered to provide Paulus with the necessary army, but there was nothing to provide, since the airfields of Morozovsky and Tatsinsky were severely defeated, as a result of which the material and fuel were destroyed, the personnel half were killed, and the other half ran away unknown where. We lost the airfield at Tatsinskaya and thus lost the opportunity to supply the 6 Army. ” Colonel-General Paulus then denounced: “A breakthrough in the army is not feasible unless the corridor is broken through and the army personnel and reserves are not replenished ....” Badanov’s order to keep Tatsinskaya was justified, the airfield was of paramount importance as to supply Stalingrad by air , and for the delivery of goods to the troops on the external front of the environment. That is why the Germans made every effort to repel the city back.

The corps of General V. Badanov, who has 58 tanks left in the ranks: the 39 T-34, the 19 T-70, which had almost no fuel, took all-round defense. The tanks were dug into the ground as fixed firing points.

The battles for Tatsinskaya finally degraded the 6 Tank Division into the category of the average battered tank division of the Eastern Front. On January 8 it contained the entire 32 tank. From 143 machines, with which she began fighting at Stalingrad, were left alone memories. As a result of the battle in the Middle Don region, the enemy was deprived of the opportunity to assist the grouping surrounded at Stalingrad from the west, and its attack from the south, from the Kotelnikovo area, was weakened. In addition, the prerequisites for the development of the Soviet offensive in Voroshilovgrad and Voronezh directions arose.

Later, Manstein recalled: “Air Bridge” to supply the army of F. Paulus was the last major operation of the Luftwaffe transport aircraft. Between 24 in November and 31 in January 1943, at least 490 aircraft were lost (including 266 U-52 and more 165 Xe-111) involved in supplying the 6 army. It was no longer possible for Germany to restore its transport aviation forces. The time when transport aviation nullified all the efforts of the Soviet troops in surrounding the large and small groups of German troops irretrievably a thing of the past ... the 6-I army was heading towards its death. ”

Breaking through the German defense in the northeastern part of the ring at night on December 28, the 24 tank corps left the encirclement. In the morning, he connected with the advanced units of the 1 Guards Army in Ilinka. 927 people came out of the environment. During the raid, the corps destroyed more than 11 thousands of enemy soldiers and officers, captured the 4769 man, knocked out the 84 tank and 106 guns, only in the Tatsinskaya area destroyed the 10 batteries and 431 aircraft. 27 December I942 g. The newspaper "Krasnaya Zvezda" spoke about the heroes - tank crews throughout the country. The Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR on assigning Vasily Mikhailovich Badanov the title of Lieutenant-General and the Decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet on awarding him with the Order of Suvorov II degree were published. The 24 tank corps was renamed the 2 Guards. By the way, by and large, the battles for the village of Tatsinskaya prepared a further capture of Starobelsk by the Soviet troops.

But today, almost no one knows about the feat of the tank corps, including the military. In general, back in Soviet times, as my study showed, the problems of preparing conscript contingents carried out by order of the Directorate of Vnevoyuskovoy training of the General Staff and Glavpur of the USSR Armed Forces when they worked at the Institute of Sociology of the USSR Academy of Sciences, besides the names of Alexander Matrosov, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Nikolai Gastello, selflessly killed with the invaders, the youth did not know many bright feats with a tremendous impact effect, such as the Tatsinsky raid of tank-Badanovtsy. And this influenced the prestige of the military profession.

... From Manstein's memoirs: “What happened in the boiler near Stalingrad after the attack of the 4 tank army with a view to release was stalled, it was in fact the agony of the 6 army. The group of armies could only at the last stage of this struggle, taking into account the other side of its task - to prevent the destruction of the entire southern wing of the Eastern Front, to take responsibility for making an attempt to reduce the losses and suffering of the army to shorten this agony.

The collapse of German communications with the capture of Starobelsk was not only a tragic ending for Paulus' army surrounded in Stalingrad, but in the context of all events and the loss of hopes of reaching the oil-bearing regions through the North Caucasus.

Manstein: “By the losses of the troops, it is necessary to add the capture of Russians by the whole territory captured by us as a result of the summer offensive of 1942 with its resources. We did not succeed in capturing Caucasian oil, which was one of the main goals of our offensive ... Having chased this territorial goal, we forgot that every achievement and retention of such a goal should be preceded by a rout of the main enemy forces. ”

“How was Starobelsk taken?” - under the title 27 in January 1943 of the year in the newspaper of the Southwestern Front, under the heading “Science to win”, an article appeared on her guard guard senior lieutenant K. Voinov about the liberation of 23 in January 1943, the first city in Ukraine. “Capturing corporal Ernst Tsesvi during interrogation showed that the soldiers were ordered to die, but not to surrender the city. It is understandable, therefore, that the Germans so stubbornly clung to this important point tactically. The 8 road and dirt roads converge here. Starobelsk is a railway junction. “On this highway, the Germans threw ammunition and reinforcements,” wrote a military journalist. - Tankmen comrade struck a decisive blow to the city’s garrison. Andryushchenko together with the infantry comrade. Karuna. On the east side of the city, the enemy had the most powerful fortifications. From here it was extremely difficult to take the city. Therefore, it was decided from here to make a false attack, and to send the main blow through the forest at the northern outskirts. The demonstrative attack was conducted by Comrade. Kovalenko. At his disposal were 7 tanks. Machines appeared and disappeared around the suburbs. The tanks were in motion all the time, and this created the impression that there were many of them, that the main forces were coming. Maneuvering in this way, Comrade Kovalenko attracted all the attention of the enemy. Meanwhile, the tanks of Comrade Biryukov, accompanied by machine gunners of Com. Krasnov, with a battle broke into the northern outskirts, cut the road and moved along the canvas to the station, dividing the enemy’s defenses into two parts. Having reached the station, Comrade Krasnov sent a part of his submachine gunners to the intersection of roads and thereby cut off the enemy’s escape routes.

While the battle was on in the city, a group of tanks, comrade Kovalenko, in turn, began to attack the eastern suburbs. 10 hours lasted a continuous battle for the city. Our warriors utterly defeated the 91 battalion of the Berlin training regiment, the 64 battalion of the motorized regiment and the remnants of the 73 and 74 of the 208 motorized regiments of the German rifle division. The liberation of Donbass and Ukraine began. ”

And this is how Lieutenant-General Ivan Magonov recalled the events of those days, then deputy chief of staff for 183 reconnaissance and the first commandant of Starobelsk, and he was only 22 of the year: “Starobelsk was turned by the enemy into a strong center of resistance ... In the battle for g Starobelsk from our side participated a significant number of troops. But these were units of Colonel Karun’s 195 rifle division, exhausted by previous intense battles, which had suffered casualties in men, equipment, and weapons.

The brigade was led into battle personally by Colonel G.Ya. Andryushchenko. We were proud of our commander, ready to go after him into fire and water. For us, he was the standard of courage, sensitivity to people.
And it was not at all accidental that the news of his death on the right bank of the Dnieper in the area of ​​the Bukrinsky bridgehead fell heavily on the shoulders of the personnel of the I83 tank brigade, it painfully and bitterly echoed in the heart of each soldier, sergeant and officer.

And if we go back to events of a much larger scale, then, of course, it should be noted that just one of such battles was the victory of the Soviet troops in the Battle of Stalingrad. This gigantic battle made a decisive contribution to the fundamental change in the Great Patriotic War and the entire Second World War. In the Battle of Stalingrad, the art of defense and offensive of the Soviet troops was further developed.

The Patriotic War with the strict necessity of putting new people in the leadership of the army. It required professionals who could fight, not only using the willingness of people to sacrifice themselves. By 1943, journalists began to contribute to this process, becoming propagandists of new technologies in the fight against the enemy. The same note from the front not only, encouraging the people, reported on the liberation of the city, but also explained how this was achieved.

Pay attention to how battle management is organized, the whole situation, even the enemy’s “brains”! Tankers cut communications and "hint" well-barricaded "Fritz" that they risk staying here for a long time or forever, if they do not immediately drape. How do professional tankers act in 1943 in the well-fortified Starobelsk? Are they, as Yeltsin's appointees in Grozny, crawling to storm at home? Not. The enemy is disoriented. They take control of the communication, tear the joints of the units, enter the enemy from the rear. It goes beyond that attack on the psyche of the enemy. Succinctly and succinctly, like Suvorov sayings from “Science to win”. "Not a number, but a decrease." “Who surprised - he won!” Assess how the war correspondent correctly described the fight, although he, presumably, was not a professional military man.

In the first years of the war, even the smallest victories were rarely achieved with great blood. The war demanded new cadres. They appeared very soon.
And our story is only about two episodes of the Great Patriotic War, in which our commanders utterly defeated the most experienced German commanders. By the way, the former lieutenant of the tsarist army, Lieutenant-General Badanov Vasily Mikhailovich from July 1943 to the severely wounded in March 1944, commanded the 4-th tank army, in 1950-1953. headed the management of military educational institutions of armored and mechanized forces of the Soviet army. In the postwar period, Magonov Ivan Afanasyevich commanded, among other things, the Higher Military School named after the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, trained and trained officers for our army. Colonel Andryuschenko Grigory Yakovlevich of the Guard was the deputy commander of the 6 Guards Tank Corps, when on October 14 of the year 1943 was killed in a battle on the famous Bukrinsky springboard. He was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. Today, in the name of the Hero of the Soviet Union G.Ya. Andryushchenko is named a street in the center of Kiev, a street in Starobelsk, a square in the center of the city of Krasnoarmeysk, Donetsk region, a street in Pereyaslavl – Khmelnitsky, the place where Ukraine is reunited with Russia.
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  1. +12
    31 January 2013 06: 58
    Eternal glory to the heroes!
    1. +4
      31 January 2013 12: 18
      In the film "Hot Snow" it is quite clearly shown how severe our grandfathers had in the steppes of the Volgograd (Stalingrad) and Rostov regions.
      1. +1
        31 January 2013 23: 16
        Yes, those unforgettable events should remain in the generations of our children, like the Battle of Kulikovo.
        My father took part in the defense of Stalingrad. He was lightly wounded in the city, taken to the hospital across the Volga, quickly got better, and then, in winter, he managed to take part in those events that are shown in the film "Hot Snow". My father said that during this winter of 42-43 he never slept indoors, only in trenches or in a field. And the frosts were severe. And the winds are serious. Well, it was not easy to hide in the steppe. Our ancestors got there in full. but they squeezed out and broke the back of the fascist.
        Glory to the Heroes of the Great Patriotic War!
      2. +1
        3 February 2013 00: 49
        AHA, ESPECIALLY BEFORE THE ATTACK, WHEN GRANDFATTER EXITS THE BLINDAGE, COMMANDED A DISCUSSION-MOUTH, THROUGH HIS POSITION, HIS MOTHER ITS FORWARDING AND THE WHOLE FAMILY ARE EVACUATED IN THE VOLGA.
        THE IRONY OF FATE....
        THE PROTECTOR OF THE EYE SAYS, THE ROOF MAY MOVE, THE TRUTH APPEARED ...
  2. +16
    31 January 2013 07: 44
    Long live holy Russia and may all its heroes of all times and peoples of the great country of Russia be glorified.
  3. pro viz
    +5
    31 January 2013 09: 31
    Yes, really nice and heroic guys fought.
    By the way, for information, when it was renamed into the 2nd Guards Corps, then into the 2nd Guards Tank Division "Tatsinskaya"
    I am proud that I served in the urgent 85-87gg in the 90th Guards Tank Regiment "Krasnoselsky" in a motorized rifle company by the deputy commander of the 3rd platoon of this division, it was in the Mongolian People's Republic of Choibolsan. Bayan-Tumen station
    After Gorbachev signed the withdrawal of troops from the MPR, she was one of the first to leave from there in 87-88. currently in a cropped condition at Mirnaya station, Bezrechnaya Zab.kraya.
    1. 0
      31 January 2013 19: 53
      Quote: pro-viz
      served in the urgent 85-87gg in the 90th Guards Tank Regiment "Krasnoselsky" in the motorized rifle company as the deputy commander of the 3rd platoon of this division, it was located in the Mongolian People's Republic of Choibolsan. Bayan-Tumen station

      I visited you in Choibalsan, though in the 84 year, the urgent 83-85, also the ZKV from the 31 brigade.
  4. avt
    +2
    31 January 2013 09: 54
    Quote: pro-viz
    By the way, for information, when it was renamed into the 2nd Guards Corps, then into the 2nd Guards Tank Division "Tatsinskaya"

    And near Kursk the guardsmen were noted !! good
  5. borisst64
    +10
    31 January 2013 10: 15
    "Author Evgeny Andryushchenko"

    I note modesty, does not focus on his heroic ancestor. They didn’t give a hero for beautiful eyes, fights for bridgeheads were always fierce, and commanders with the rank of colonel did not aspire there. Eugene must be proud of the right.
  6. +5
    31 January 2013 11: 21
    Thanks to the author. I read it with interest.
    All WWII veterans, living and fallen soldier hi
  7. xan
    +2
    31 January 2013 11: 35
    927 people left the encirclement.
    captured 4769 people.

    I’m wondering, did they leave the environment with the prisoners, or maybe they shot them?
    in general, our people fought here competently. You can’t win such war, you can only kill them
    1. wax
      +3
      31 January 2013 14: 53
      Captivity and surroundings are separated in time.
    2. dima_talib
      0
      1 February 2013 05: 59
      Talking about the exclusivity of the raid on Tatsinskaya station is somehow not correct. At the same time, raids on German rear areas and other tank corps were carried out in the same sector of the front. Blood poured everywhere. Everyone then gave their lives to the altar of victory.
      After the raid of the brigade of V.I.Shibankov on Krasnoarmeysk, about 70 people and 1 (one) tank left for their own. Krasnoarmeysk was kept in the rear of the Germans - 10 days !!! There, almost the entire 14th Guards Tank Brigade (4GV.T.K.), along with Commander Brig Shibankov, was killed ... But at the cost of their lives the task was completed.
      I think the figure of 927 who came to their own from such a meat grinder is somewhat implausible ... There are about 1200 people in the brigade. And after the raid on the rear and exit from the environment, the loss is a little more than 20% ???
      About the prisoners, I’ll say that ...
      In Krasnoarmeysk captured 200 people were harmless enough Italians exploded in the basement of a local school. Sorry about the war ...
      And indeed, according to the recollections of Grandfather, the Germans treated our captured guardsmen, much like we did the SS men. I think the details are clear to everyone.
      As part of Operation Jump, we showed that we had mastered the "science" of 41 well and mastered the ability to gut the enemy's rear with tank corps.
  8. +3
    31 January 2013 11: 54
    Sadly, but naturally. The war was remembered by participants and contemporaries, their children, a little - grandchildren. Which of the people exactly remembers at least the end date of the First World War, not to mention earlier wars.
    It's a shame that the current shifters (like the traitor Volkogonov - the first deputy chief of GlavPUR. Then - the main demon) and the descendants of the traitors have ruined everything so ...
  9. +7
    31 January 2013 12: 45
    There was such a "Book of Future Commanders", approximately published in 1970.
    So in that book the raid on Tatsin was very well described.
    With the involvement of this particular quote from the German, as in the article.
    ..
    Who wanted to know, he knew.
    And who does not want - and does not know.
    And it's great that the grandchildren (I hope that this is the grandson of Grigory Yakovlevich Andryushchenko) carefully preserve the memory of their grandfathers.
    More to this.
    ...
    Glory to our soldiers!
    1. +3
      31 January 2013 12: 49
      Unfortunately, this wonderful book has not been reprinted since the same 1970. Now it can be supplemented by the best of what has happened in these 40 years.
      1. +2
        31 January 2013 14: 25
        Quote: unclevad
        Unfortunately, this wonderful book has not been reprinted since the same 1970.

        Anyone who wishes can download it on "Rutrecker", I downloaded it to my son.
      2. 0
        31 January 2013 20: 59
        My grandfather as part of the library gave me from this series, only called "The Book of Future Admirals". A very beautiful and informative edition.
        1. 0
          1 February 2013 05: 39
          I read both as a child. wink
  10. zmey
    +9
    31 January 2013 12: 52
    it is because of such "shape-shifters" that interest of young people in OUR history is discouraged.
    Has anyone watched Svanidze's program "The Court of History"? The most vile transmission!
    Svanidze and Mlechin crossed out any facts and historical documents with demogogy. As a result, people who do not understand the issue are "fucked up" with their brains utterly! and young people who would like to sort out the issue threw this "little interesting" case. another 5-10 years of such "Fantastic" and the Second World War will be turned into Homer's "Iliad"
  11. ed65b
    +1
    31 January 2013 13: 06
    interesting.
  12. +10
    31 January 2013 13: 35
    Thanks to power and freaks like Svanidze, Mlechin, Radzinsky, Posner, and the current cinema, we are etched from our own heroic past, forcing us to repent of all sorts of freaks who did not show any resistance to the aggressor, and even vice versa, babbled and served him.
  13. Kubanets
    +12
    31 January 2013 14: 20
    To the title of the article. We, who grew up in the USSR, remembered Badanov and Tanaschishin and the Motherland and other glorious military commanders. And the current government, represented by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Culture, consigns them to oblivion by raising young people on Krasnov Shkuro and Vlasov; introducing the Circles Archipelagoes and other Red Wheels into the curriculum
    1. +2
      31 January 2013 18: 32
      Kubanets "And the current government in the person of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Culture consigns them to oblivion by raising young people on Krasnov Shkuro and Vlasov; massively replicating on TV the deceitful and poor" Penal Battles "and" Saboteurs "introducing the Archipelagos of Circles and other Red Wheels into the training program."
      BRAVO !!!! AGREE !!! Of all the holes, the pest climbed out !!!
  14. borz68
    +8
    31 January 2013 16: 41
    My grandfather, the commander of the tank company, Shmigelsky Boris Ivanovich participated in those battles. He died on December 17, 1942. posthumously awarded the Order of Lenin
  15. +1
    31 January 2013 17: 25
    Here is what Kayus Becker writes about it:
    On the 24th at 5.20 the first Russian tank shells fell on the northern edge of the aerodrome. Immediately one plane flared up, and the second exploded on the runway. The rest stood waiting with the engines running. Will they eventually receive permission to take off?
    For an hour, the group commanders pounded in the bunker of the control tower, waiting for the order that would bring them deliverance. But Lieutenant General Faibih did not hesitate to take responsibility. He constantly tried to get through to his superior officers in the 4th Air Army, although everyone knew that an hour and a half ago, during a shelling by the Russians, the telephone station in the village of Tatsinskaya had caught fire. Feibich, heading to the airfield, saw the burning building himself, and nevertheless he was desperately trying to contact his superior, Colonel General von Richthofen. Colonel Gerhud von Roden, Chief of Staff of the Air Fleet, was close to Faybih in shelter, whom Richthofen sent here yesterday in alarming anticipation of impending events. Nophon Roden was silent. Probably, he, too, was not ready to contradict Goering's order.
    At 5.25, a Volkswagen team with the chief of staff of the VIII Air Corps Lieutenant Colonel Lothar von Heinemann swept through the airfield. Until now, he, along with Captain Jane and Senior Lieutenant Druberu, led the headquarters detachment in the village. Raising the crews on alert, he ordered the ground personnel, who did not get a seat in the waiting plane, to pack up for departure to the southern outskirts of the airfield. He himself reached the aerodrome just at the moment when the first Ju-52 was smoking. In this moving fog, no one could tell where the shells were coming from, and the noise was drowned out by the roar of aircraft engines. People, until now calmly awaiting an order, suddenly ran into the turmoil and crammed into the plane. There was panic all over.
    Bursting into cover, Heinemann reported the situation to Faibihu.
    “Mr. General,” he reported panting, “you must take action! You must give permission to take off!”
    “For this, I need permission from the army, which cancels the existing order,” Faybih objected. - In any case, in such a fog it is impossible to fly up!
    Pulling himself together, Heinemann declared:
    - Either you take this risk, or all the planes at the airport will be destroyed! All transport aircraft for Stalingrad, Mr. General. The last hope of the encircled 6th Army! The time was 5.30. What happened in the next half hour has never been seen before. The motors roared, the snow cascaded from under the wheels, and the Ju-52 rushed through the fog in different directions. Visibility barely reached 50 meters, the clouds lay almost above the ground, so low that it seemed they could be touched by hand. Most of the aircraft were overloaded, but not with extremely important equipment that would allow servicing the cars at the new base, but still boxes of ammunition and fuel cans for Stalingrad. The fact was that until the very last minute the order to continue deliveries via the air bridge remained in force as if the Russians were still 100 kilometers from here.

    Continued:

    Continuation is not inserted
    1. +1
      31 January 2013 17: 25
      While the planes were tearing into the unknown, a terrible explosion rang out: two planes, taking off from completely different directions, collided in the middle of the airfield. Burning debris flew in all directions. Other planes ran into each other, clung to wings during take-off, or hit their tails. There have been many cases when cars were in the balance of a catastrophe. Some managed to take off at the very last moment, roaring low-russia tanks with a roar, and this time the fog was an ally of the pilots.
      At 6.00:52, General Faibih was still in the control tower with the staff members, and the only suitable Ju-6 was nearby. The enemy fire intensified, and on the left the military depot of the XNUMXth Army was already burning. It appeared in fog, but the first Soviet tank passed by.
      “Mr. General,” said Captain Dietrich Pekrun, “it’s time to leave!”
      But Faybikh pulled everything. At 6.07 a major from the 16th Panzer Division of Burgsdorfi appeared that the whole area was teeming with Soviet tanks and infantry. Further waiting is no longer possible.
      Faibihu had practically nothing to command. At 6.15, the last remaining Ju-52 left Tatsinskaya. On board were Faibich, communications commander Colonel Paul Overdick, quartermaster Major Kurt Stolberger and several corps headquarters officers. Their life now depended on the skill of the pilot, Sergeant Ruppert. After taking off from a burning airfield, it began to rise into the clouds, but at an altitude of 2700 meters they still did not end. After seventy minutes of flight, the plane landed in Rostov-zapadny.
      On Christmas Eve, 108 other Ju-52s and 16 Ju-86s, who landed at various airfields, were able to escape from the mess in Tatsinskaya. One captain Lorenz from the 38th communication regiment, who had never been a pilot, brought Novocherkassk unharmed. On the same evening, Richthofen handed him the badge of honor, but about sixty aircraft, or a third of the total, were lost, and in addition, almost all of the spare parts and valuable ground equipment remained in the hands of the Russians. All this could have been saved if the evacuation order had arrived just a day earlier. Was it worth it to deprive Germany of the latest training machines and communications aircraft for the Stalingrad epic in order to sacrifice them because of meaningless orders?
  16. +1
    31 January 2013 17: 35
    Eternal glory to the heroes of Budanovtsy!
    Ps Well, about the 431 aircraft, the author certainly turned down, there were so many of the Nazis on the whole front, and so that four hundred were placed at the airport ... The Germans managed to drop off from a nearby airfield in Morozovskaya, there were things there, and then there was transport aircraft.
    1. 0
      31 January 2013 19: 25
      Alas, this is what we can’t expect from the Americans. The order to drape, to run, to flee is sewn into their subcortex even before birth. They won’t give us time, they’ve just started the engines, and they are already dumping ... More, much more attention needs to be paid to long-range artillery. So that the airfield was mixed with mud in advance ...
    2. +1
      31 January 2013 19: 41
      Germans lost 80 aircraft. another thing is interesting: Erwin Rommel became Erich Rommel, Hermann Goth-Friedrich))))) Multi-emotional article!
    3. valiant
      +1
      1 February 2013 00: 29
      At the airfield, only 44 German aircraft were destroyed (where does the number 431 come from?), And how could up to 10 batteries be destroyed in the Tatsinskaya area, when everything was near the airfield! 6 anti-aircraft guns + 200 personnel, the figure of 84 destroyed tanks is also unclear, to help Tatsinskaya the Germans allocated the Unrein group of 11 TD (22 tanks, 6 self-propelled guns +350 infantrymen) and the Pfeiffer group of 6 TD (11 tanks + 400 people), even if all this was destroyed, it turns out 39 pieces of equipment! But the 24th corps of Budanov was practically defeated (at the beginning of the operation on December 19 - 208 tanks, 10.709 people; just before the assault on Tatsinskaya on December 24 - already 91 tanks, after the assault on December 25 - 58 tanks: 39 T-34 tanks and 19 tanks T-70; exit from the encirclement on December 28 - 0 tanks, 927 people), the 25th tank and 1st guards mechanized corps could not help, they got stuck 25 kilometers from Tatsinskaya ... and this is where
      Our commanders utterly defeated the most experienced German commanders.
      There you have it
      Do not forget Badanov, help him out at all costs!
      Vatutin’s order was to defend at all costs, but Badanov soberly assessed the situation and made his own decision to leave the encirclement, which was later recalled to him - they still did not give the Hero to him.
  17. 0
    31 January 2013 19: 58
    Glory to heroes! What layers of history have not yet been revealed. And they also scolded the Main Political Directorate of SA. Who will educate future and real soldiers, on the examples of which heroes? Office hamsters, how did you buy a car for a good loan?
  18. 0
    1 February 2013 05: 42
    The film "General Shubnikov's Corps" seems to be about these events.
    1. Kubanets
      0
      1 February 2013 11: 28
      Not certainly in that way. The film "General Shubnikov's Corps" has its own historical prototype. Namely, the breakthrough of the tank corps of General Solomatin during the Rzhev-Sychevsk offensive operation.
  19. 0
    1 February 2013 09: 08
    Glory to the heroes !!!! Respect to the author !!! Only Grozny should not be touched, this is a completely different story .......
  20. 0
    15 February 2013 03: 02
    Eternal Glory and Memory

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