Marsh Is.#323 Battle of Stalingrad - 1992 Imperforate Mint Issue
August 23, 1942 During 1941, Hitler’s advances across Europe had been most successful. His massive 6th Army had been unstoppable. But with Germany quickly running out of essential resources, his good fortune would change the following year. Hitler pressed his generals to capture Stalingrad. Huge German artillery guns pummeled the city. For the Russians, camouflage and sabotage were the only means of defense. Their strategy was simple: Attack the Germans quickly and then disappear into the never-ending maze of rubble, tunnels and trenches that spanned the city. Every city block became a fortress laden with mines, ambushes and booby traps. The Russians managed to prevent the Germans from taking Stalingrad until reinforcement units finally arrived from the south and began to surround the enemy, cutting off their supplies. Hitler’s massive 6th Army, which had left a wake of destruction all across Europe, never fully recovered from the failure of its intense effort to take Stalingrad.
