... Pavlov's House held out, raining down artillery and machine gun fire on any Germans unlucky enough to be sent up against their formidable defences. Yet the Soviet garrison in the region was not passive; many counterattacks were ...
... PAVLOV'S HOUSE In the house - to- house fighting that raged in Stalingrad in the fall of 1942 , the battle for Pavlov's House became one of the most famous episodes . Some 300 yards from the Volga River , the four - story building was ...
... Pavlov's house ' but for fifty - eight days Pavlov beat off every assault . ' Pavlov's house ' , one of the landmarks of Stalingrad , stood towards the left flank of 13 th Guards Division holding the central part of Stalingrad along a ...
... Pavlov's House . Zhu- kov gathered his officers around the map table and placed a diagram of 9th January Square in front of them . He pointed his finger at a familiar building they all had come to hate - the " Milk House , " garrisoned ...
... Pavlov's House ' continued to hold out , Craig added : ' On all battle maps at the 62nd Army's HQ the house in no - man's land was now referred to as " Dom Pavlov " ( " Pavlov's House " ) . Pavlov revelled in his new - found importance ...
... Pavlov's House protruded into German - occupied territory like a headland into the sea . ( For radio purposes , the Russians gave the house the appropriate code name mayak - ' lighthouse ' ) . Not only could Pavlov and his comrades ...
... Pavlov's House for 3 days. Three days after another 24 Soviet soldiers led by Lieutenant Ivan Afanasyev, who officially took command, finally came to the rescue of the Sergeant Pavlov's detachment. They brought the necessary provisions ...
... PAVLOV'S HOUSE In mid-September 1942 German troops seized a four-storey apartment house in a dominant position on 9th January square in the middle of Stalingrad. On 22 September, a counter-attack was made by a 30-strong platoon of the ...
... Pavlov's House”), and it had become both an integral fortification and a rallying point. Troops verified observations by saying that the Germans were seen moving two hundred yards west of Pavlov's House; German tanks were reported one ...
... both an integral fortification and a rallying point. Troops verified observations by saying that the Germans were seen moving two hundred yards west of Pavlov's House; German tanks were reported one hundred yards north of Pavlov's House.