soviet soldiers attacking on lodgement in october 1943
german troops launched heavy counterattacks on every bridgehead, hoping annihilate them before heavy equipment transported across river.
for instance, borodaevsk lodgement, mentioned marshal konev in memoirs, came under heavy armored attack , air assault. bombers attacked both lodgement , reinforcements crossing river. konev complained @ once lack of organization of soviet air support, set air patrols prevent bombers approaching lodgements , ordered forward more artillery counter tank attacks opposite shore. when soviet aviation became more organized , hundreds of guns , katyusha rocket launchers began firing, situation started improve , bridgehead preserved.
such battles commonplace on every lodgement. although lodgements held, losses terrible – @ beginning of october, divisions @ 25 50% of nominal strength.
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