Between the Don and the Volga, Southern Russia. Field Marshal von Weichs writes to von Paulus to quickly seize the railway carrying American military supplies, the Stalingrad-Voroponovo-Gumrak. Only a few days earlier, the Third Motorized Division, seizing Station 564, seized a very long freight train with late-model Ford trucks, caterpillar tractors, two dismantled workshops, mines, engineering equipment, Sherman tanks, and jeeps, all made in the USA. But Paulus does not want to leave the Northern Front exposed and remains inactive.
