Spanish Civil War-SB

[von Waldenburg]

There was fighting in an around Gandesa, it was a key road junction as you say, thing is that repubilcan artillery and planes did not participate in the 6 days they were in the offensive (25th July 1938- 1st Agoust 1938) and thus it was not bombarded, there was fighting inside the city during that six days period, but the 8 batallion franquist force (4 understrength) managed to keep republicans from entering the "casco antiguo" (antique urban area in downtown Gandesa) and gaining a definitive hold in the 3.000 people town. We can safely state this was one of the 2 or 3 hottest spots in the battle of Ebro, the battle that some have regarded as the 1st battle of ww2 for their intense use of air units.

Belchite of course a nice battle had it been included, I forgot to mention :)