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.

Panzer Assembly 19th Dec, 1942

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

During the second winter in Russia, the crews now wear proper winter clothing. They are from Stu.Gesch.Abt.202 (202nd Assault Gun Battalion).
and their guns were named and painted with various animal names such as ..Leopard" (Wm. Amfing). "Alligator" (Owm. Schramm). and "Jaguar" (Uffz. Klein)
Photographed near Rzhev in November 1942