Atheory's Project: Operation Fischreiher (Stalingrad42)

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The Italians are actually present for all of this scenarios time frame. The Soviet 21st Army, or maybe the 63rd launched a counter-attack in the area mid to late August and the Italians were fighting hard until the end of August. Italian reinforcements and german support were just enough to stop and contain the attacks.

I don't think the Romanian 3rd army began arriving in the area until mid September. Which allowed the exhausted Italians to consolidate themselves further west along the Don. It was the Commander of the 3rd Romanian Army who requested permission to remove the Russian bridgehead, but was denied.

As we know, this bridgehead will later be a major staging and launch point for the Russians in Operation Uranus.