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Lost Battalion Games : Products : Games : Battlelines® : Stalingrad Upper ... (974 words) |
 | Army Group B was tasked with the capture of the Volga River port of Stalingrad, a center of manufacturing and transportation. |
| Army with fifteen divisions was to clear the Chir and Don river bends and advance across the Volga-Don land bridge into the city of Stalingrad. |
| After a baptism of fire at Kharkov as part of the 1st Panzer Army, it sat out the "Drive on Stalingrad" and was transferred to reinforce the 6th Army during the fighting in the "Streets of Stalingrad". |
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U.S. 6th Army Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (258 words) |
| The 6th Army Group, also known as the Southern Group of Armies, was commanded by Lieutenant General Jacob L. Devers. |
| The 6th Army Group remained subordinate to AFHQ in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations during the invasion and in the weeks immediately afterwards. |
| At about the time the 6th Army met the U.S. 12th Army Group, which had broken out of the Normandy bridgehead, near Dijon in mid-September, command was handed to SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Forces) under U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower. |
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