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Eastern Front
Situation Report Dec 14th 1944 Turn 109
Army Group A

Operation Wintermärchen II

At Stalingrad the German Army raises the Flag in celebration of the its capture of the city.





As ceremonies take place at Stalingrad on the front line Wilhelm Stemmermann's forces begin assaults on Soviet troops from the 41st and 43rd Armies, despite fielding it latest tanks in battle the Soviet armour is in no position to make any attempts to break out of the encirclement's, isolated out in the open 18th Armee crushes the pockets.

Eastern Front
Situation Report Dec 14th 1944 Turn 109
Army Group South

Operation Wintermärchen II

On the Caspian front as German forces prepare to destroy the trapped Soviet armour the enemy rushes Infantry reserves south to support the remaining enemy units not caught in our encirclement's, however this operations is all to late as 1st Pz Armee outflanks the Soviet tank units and reaches the Caspian coastline north of the enemies positions creating a new pocket.

6th Armee and 17th Armee now begin the destruction of the cut off enemy troops, fighting is short as enemy resistance collapses, almost 35,000 enemy combatants are captured or killed.

Western Front
Situation Report Dec 16th 1944 Turn 77
Army Group B / Army Group H

This week sees The Allies throwing caution to the wind and launching massive bombing raids across Western Europe, despite heavy snowfalls enemy raids struck The Low Countries, Luxembourg, France and Western Germany targeting Infrastructure facilities, Military Industry and Air bases, Luftwaffe High Command responded in kind with every available air unit that could put to the skies to counter the enemy attacks.

In France the enemy struck at Paris with heavy raids,in The Pas De Calais region the RAF and US Bomber Command targeted Ports and Rail Centres, at Normandy enemy bombers launched multiply raids throughout the week from Dieppe to Le Harve, a total of 40 attacks on the area with saturation bombing, with our fighter units stretched to the limit in all sectors and bad weather hampering operations the Luftwaffe was hard pressed to counter all raids.

Italian Front
Situation Report Dec 16th 1944 Turn 77
Army Group C

The weather in southern Europe eased somewhat giving the enemy a chance to launch air assaults against the Axis front line however enemy air activity was not as heavy as expected by Air Commanders, the enemy attacks ranged from small to medium size with enemy strength no larger than 100 planes, the attacks on ground forces and defensive fortifications caused negligible damage.

While enemy raids on the mainland were not great in numbers Luftwaffe Command decided marshal its forces on conducting intercept operations against enemy bomber forces attacking southern France, there were heavy air battles over the island of Corsica throughout the week.




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On the front line flak units of the 4th Fallschirmjaeger Div in action.

Italian Front
Situation Report Dec 16th 1944 Turn 77
Army Group C

With the weather easing in southern Italy the Allies attempted to breach the Axis line launching major assaults in three sectors of The Volturno Line.


On the Coast with the US 2nd Corps leading the attack the enemy assaults General Balck's LXXXX ArmeeKorps hoping to smash through and secure the coastal town, two attack during the week fail to break the line, further inland the Allies launch there biggest attacks against 14th Armee, massing nearly 700 hundred tanks but once again the attack is held up with enemy suffering heavy losses.
The enemies third push in the centre against XIV Pz Korps defending the line south of Isernia gains some ground but cannot force the defenders back and the enemy attack falters.

On the Adriatic line 10th Armee's front remains quiet.

just wanted to drop a brief note thanking you again for this treasure of an AAR. You have an incredible talent and this is such a treat to periodically login and catch up. Looking forward to future AARs! Have you tried War in the Pacific: Admiral's edition?

hpalmer wrote: Tue Jan 06, 2026 3:01 am just wanted to drop a brief note thanking you again for this treasure of an AAR. You have an incredible talent and this is such a treat to periodically login and catch up. Looking forward to future AARs! Have you tried War in the Pacific: Admiral's edition?

Thanks for the kind words I got two weeks to go in this AAR which I have been a bit slack in doing this last month, of course its all over on the Eastern Front but there is still the Western and Mediterranean Front ( WITW ) to continue with.

I have looked into War In The Pacific and would be tempted to purchase the game and take a look playing it but at the moment the new WITE2 Patch which the current AAR is not being used has me looking forward to playing a 1941 campaign.

Another AAR sure, I enjoyed doing this one but it might be a little while in the making.

Again thanks for the support

Regards

Eastern Front
Situation Report Dec 21st 1944 Turn 110
Army Group North / Army Group Centre


Operation Wintermärchen II

On the Northern front the weather continues to hinder any major advances by Axis forces, 4th Armee cuts off a second Tank Corps as it attempts to slip through our lines to rescue the 16th Tank Corps trapped the previous week, while LVI Pz Korps launches two unsuccessful attacks on the enemy elements of 4th Armee and 16th Armee push forward across the Vyakta river towards Mozhga and Agryz where Intelligence have determined are where the 1st and 2nd Ukrainian Fronts Headquarters are situated.






After the destruction of Soviet forces along the central front Axis forces went over onto the defensive in 9th Armee sector as more Red Army units pushed forward, Erich Brandenberger content to let the enemy attack his troops in heavily fortified positions, while this was taking place 2nd Armee advanced towards Ozinki only 80 miles from Uralsk on the Ural river.




At 3Pz Armee HQ a special train is being prepared to take the Soviet Leader back to Berlin, news of his capture spreading around the world however die hard resistance by the Red Army continues and as of yet there is still no indication of who is actually in control of the remnants of the Communist regime.

Eastern Front
Situation Report Dec 21st 1944 Turn 110
Army Group A / Army Group South

Operation Wintermärchen II

On the southern front Stemmermann's 18th Armee redeploys and prepares for more attacks by Soviet forces which have pushed towards Axis lines on the Stalingrad front, several enemy Infantry units making contact with 18th Armee's first defence line but make no real attempt to assault the defences which are 30 miles deep.
At Stalingrad itself Walther Nehring's Armee bunkers down in the frozen city and continues to rest and rebuild.




On The Caspian front Kleist's forces continue the destruction of enemy with 1st Pz Armee destroying three Armoured Corps from 20th and 41st Army's which had been encircled by Breith's Panzer's in a lightning advance across muddy terrain, with enemy units advancing south to extricate there comrades 1st, 2nd and 9th Tanks Corps are smashed with the only 18th still holding out against 6th Armee and 17th Armee for now.

Just a heads up normally post the Western front in the AAR with the Eastern Front but been a bit slack lately but I will get round to it hopefully this week before I do what should be the final East Front week.

regards

Western Front
Situation Report Dec 23rd 1944 Turn 78
Army Group B / Army Group H

It has been almost 2 months since the Allies were expelled from the Western Europe and there has been no indication so far of any planned second attempt by the enemy to invade France, OKW continues to buildup the Atlantic defences but winter is in full force across mainland Europe and only Allied air forces conduct any activity against The Westheer, in Paris Rommel feels confident the Allies will not make another attempt until at least the spring or summer of 1945 if at all, by then however the Russians more than likely will have surrendered, Germany will have only a one Front war.




Despite atrocious weather across western Europe Allied bombers continue attacks in Holland and western Germany, The Ruhr region is heavily targeted as is Hannover and Frankfurt, Hubert Weise commits every available fighter unit of Luftflotte Reich to battle, there is heavy fighting in the the skies with both sides taking losses.




France also comes under attack with the enemy committing there bomber forces to attack targets in the extreme weather, with almost all German air defences engaged further north only Josef Kammhuber's I Jagd Korps is available to defend the entire NE and NW regions of France, Paris is hit by heavy attacks and Normandy suffers a massive bombing assault but not without paying a price as bomber losses are high.

Mediterranean Front
Situation Report Dec 23rd 1944 Turn 78
Army Group C / Army Group G

Southern France

The main commitment in the bombing campaign in the Mediterranean is now in The Provence region where the the US 7th Army struggles to hold the beachhead in and around Cannes with both 1st Armee and 19th Armee maintaining a stranglehold of the area.
The enemy survival depends on both air and sea support with Corsica providing them with supplies.



Over the island itself there is heavy air battles as both sides fight to take control of the skies, with both sides taking large scale losses.


Southern Italy

On the Italian mainland enemy air operations have been scaled back but still just as intense, the enemy concentrating on supporting there ground forces.

Italian Front
Situation Report Dec 23rd 1944 Turn 78
Army Group C

With the failure of the Normandy landings and the southern France landings hanging in the balance, with Russia on the verge of surrender the picture looks bleak for the Western Allies, east front troops will be transferred west over time and the balance will change.



With the situation dire the enemy launches a massive assault concentrating on certain sectors of the front, at Grazzanise the scene of countless battles thus far over the course of the campaign, US forces with 101st Airborne leading attempt to push General Balck's LXXX ArmeeKorps from the city, but the attack is held with heavy losses of US Paratroopers.



North of the LXXXX ArmeeKorps positions Kuebler's troops come under huge pressure as the Allies throw everything they have at 14th Armee, a massive armoured assault backed by five Infantry Divisions push the defences, the opening attack is halted but the enemy follows up with a second attack, LXXXXVII ArmeeKorps manages to hold despite two more attempts to breakthrough Axis positions.


In the centre Hube's XIV Pz Korps line is also threatened as Brit 8th Army launches a series of combined attacks towards Isernia, despite being outnumbered two to one in tanks the Panzers hold.
On the Adriatic line an assault lead by the Pol 2nd Corps attempts to push Erich Straube's Panzer troops away from the Biferno river defences and allow US and Commonwealth forces to advance across,16th Panzer contains the attack and pushes the enemy back with heavy losses.

Eastern Front
Situation Report Dec 28th 1944 Turn 111
Army Group North / Army Group Centre

On the northern front the cold weather continues to hamper any kind of movement however 4th Armee destroys the two soviet Tank Corps trapped as more Red Army troops push towards the front lines but they cannot hope to break the Axis line.



Further behind the lines the cutoff 1st Rifle Corps continues to hold out, an attack by Von Kortzfleich's XLII ArmeeKorps is held, the enemy unit remains defiant and refuses to surrender.



In the centre there is a surreal quite along the front, enemy troops spread wide across the front but no real threat to the Ostheer, a foolhardy attack by an enemy Tank Corps is easily dealt with.

Eastern Front
Situation Report Dec 28th 1944 Turn 111
Army Group A / Army Group South

On the Stalingrad front General Stemmermann's Armee prepares for battle as a number of Soviet Tank and Mech Corps push towards the lines, despite the enemy armour massing against 18th Armee the Red Army lacks infantry support and is outnumbered, the General mobilises his own Panzer reserve.







On the Caspian front after destroying the last enemy push Kleist is once again faced with another attack on his line, a larger force including infantry support but the enemy is spread out and to thin to make any real risk to Axis defences, the Feldmarschall's forces can easily deal with this new threat with superior mobile units.

Germany
Situation Report Jan 4th 1945 Turn 112
OHL Command

Victory The War in the East is over !

The Soviet Union has agreed to unconditional surrender and a cease fire goes into effect with all Red Army Units laying down there arms midnight on the 4th of January 1945.
Then the process of demobilising the remnants of the Soviet Military will commence and a gradual troop withdrawal of Ostheer forces to the Western Front.
The war in the East may be over but the fight in the West continues.




Generalfeldmarschall Erich von Manstein Commander in Chief OKH will present his final report on the Axis Forces ( Ostheer ) Eastern Front.







In Berlin a special security compound has been built at Spandau Prison to house the former Soviet Leader as he awaits trial.






Notes

Well its been a long road for The Axis in the East ( this AAR ) however I will finish off the Western Campaign at the War In The West forum, 2 by 3 and Matrix were kind enough to allow me to post a combined AAR here but I think its only fair I continue the fight " in the West " since its now a one front war, I don't know how regular reports will be but I want see how it plays out to the end, never finished a western campaign in fact didn't even get to 1944 in past attempts.

But I digress the eastern campaign here has been played with the 1.02.52 patch from so long ago and I am eager to practice with the latest patch focusing on the logistics particularly the 41 / 42 winter as the Axis of course, so its back to the 41 campaign for awhile.

Well I guess that's it.

regards

Thanks tm1, for a most enjoyable AAR!