Marching Orders: The Untold Story of How the American Breaking of the Japanese Secret Codes Led to the Defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan

by Bruce Lee

In the center, German forces are positioned to check the movement of troops southward from Moscow. Meanwhile, they are prepared to advance on Moscow in “case of a Russian reversal in the south [Stalingrad] made it necessary [for Russian] troops to be drawn out of [Moscow].” In the south, the Sixth Army and the Fourth Armored Division were “assigned the responsibility for capturing Stalingrad.… The Hungarian forces … were to cover the left flanks of the forces attacking Stalingrad.… Confronting the Russian Army in the Sea of Azov area [i.e., the right flank of the German advance on Stalingrad] is the Third Rumanian Army (consisting of two Rumanian divisions and one division of German infantry).”