[Homer_J_Simpson]

Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
German Invasion of Russia – Operations, 22 June-25 August 1941
The Mediterranean Basin
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – The Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939

[CougarGA7]

• "The advance goes very slowly. Numerous obstacles keep slowing down our charge. You can't really call what we're on a road. It's better than this in the tiniest hamlet in Germany. And we're marching on a main road! The shoulders of the road are all muddy from the previous rain - you sink up to your knees- but in the middle of the road there's dust already...each vehicle [is] surrounded by an impenetrable cloud of dust." - Wilhelm Prüller, NCO in German motorized regiment

• "The compression of the troops [onto narrow avenues of advance] makes forward progress slower than we would like, to this must be added the unbelievable roads which increase the difficulties." - General Gotthard Heinrici

• A Soviet ambush of German forces north of Zhlobin results in the destruction of 22 German tanks.

• Halder receives the overall casualty figures for invasion of Russia up to July 3rd: 54,000 casualties with and additional 54,000 listed as 'sick'.

• Lieutenant-General P.A. Kurochkin's 20th Army begins a Stavka ordered counterstroke against Hoth's Third Panzer Group

• Popov orders Lieutenant-General K.P. Piadyshev's newly formed Luga Operational Group (LOG) to man the Luga Defense Line.

[iowamark]

I am curious about the pictured Major General Bruce Magruder, commanding the First Armored Division. George Patton was then commanding the Second Armored Division. I have never heard of Gen. Magruder before. Quick searches show:

“”Bruce Magruder, Major-General (1882–1953)
1937 - 1940 Executive Officer Infantry School
1940 - March 1942 Commanding General 1st Armored Division
1942 - 1946 Commandant Infantry Replacement Training Center, Camp Wolters, Mineral Springs, Texas
1946 Retired””

It looks as though he was not successful at tank command and was sent to Texas to train infantry for the rest of the war.