0211_01: Try, Try Again - PzC 06 Korsun '44

Vinograd, 60km south west of Korsun, February 11th 1944: Time was running short for the 56,000 men trapped in the Korsun Pocket. All the rescue attempts so far had ground to halt due to Soviet counter-attacks, the clinging mud, and the failure of the German High Command to effectively use its available units. In the east, the worn out divisions had been battered onto the defensive. The emphasis was now in the west, where III Pz Korps was now the massing its units to try again to relieve the pocket. 16th and 17th Pz Divisions had now been reinforced with the well-equipped 1st Pz Division and Kampfgruppe Baeke with its Tigers and Panthers. They pushed aside the 47th Rifle Corps, and rushed towards the crossing points of the Gniloy Tikich river at Bushanka and Lisyanka. [Size medium]