Chronology of World War II
Germans 100 miles east of Leningrad
Monday, November 3, 1941 www.onwar.com

Germans troops battling along a railway lineOn the Eastern Front... In the Leningrad area, German forces of Army Group North continue to attempt to isolate the city by taking Tikhvin a railway center 100 miles east of the city. Fighting is fierce and the Soviet counterattacks are ineffective. Further south, Kursk falls to German units at the junction of Army Group Center and Army Group South .


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