SdKfz 251 half-tracks of the (6th Panzer) division photographed at Wassiljewka on the Myschkowa in late December I942- just 48km from Stalingrad, and the furthest point of 6th Panzer's advance.

48km from Stalingrad

Oberst von Huenersdorff, CO of 11th Pz.Regt. - and
of the division from February to July 1943- holds a
front-line orders group during a January 1943 attack
on the Soviet position known as 'Rabbit Farm'. During
the costly fighting between the Don and the Donets
that winter von Huenersdorff commanded an armored
battle-group of 6th and 7th Pz.Divs. and Army
reserve assault artillery units.

Between Don and Donets

The dash for the Myschkowa bridgehead: Oberst von
Huenersdorff's command tank, in which the author (Oberst A.D. Helmut Ritgen) rode during the attempt to drive a corridor through for the entombed 6th Army at Stalingrad, is seen in the foreground during the assembly of 11th Pz.Regt. on 19 December 1942.