Does somebody know little bit more about soviet winter offensive 1941 in front of Moscow...Good maps and links will be exelent. New to me - I found out that soviet managed, (despite Germans still had air superiority), to made strategic parachute landings behind enemy lines with 21st Parachute Brigade and 250th Airborne Regiment. What was the outcome of those operations? And how exactly Hitler managed for the first and only time to save the central front from collapsing by no-retreating orders? How isolated and encircled German garrisons inside towns managed to survive?

I sugest a book if you are that curious, quite a few are written about the Battle of Moscow, otherwise check wikipedia for a brief overview.

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Isolated garrsions were supplied by air. This was actually one of the reasons they issued no retreat orders @ Stalingrad, because they thought air supply would work again. (The commanders actually in the area knew differently, but Hitler, Keitel, etc. wouldn't listen).

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The Soviets also dropped Airborne Troops on some stands of surrounded Wehrmacht Divisons, most of them were slaughtered.

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A German Soldier doesnt die, he goes to hell and regroups !

This is what I have found today

"...If Vyazma could be taken, however, then the German Ninth and Fourth Panzer Armies could still be surrounded. Zhukov therefore continued his attacks. By 22 January, 2000 Soviet paratroops had been dropped on Zhelanye, 40km (25 miles) south of Vyazma, where they linked up with Red Army cavalry that had broken through German lines. However, attempts to drop the whole of IV Parachute Corps just south of Vyazma failed when Luftwaffe bombers caught the transport aircraft on their ill-defended airfields. IV Parachute Corps was defeated before it got off the ground. The 8th Parachute Brigade did manage to mount an airborne drop, between 27 January and 2 February, when 2323 men were dropped around Vyazma. On the ground, only 1320 managed to form up into units on the ground. The rest were scattered over a large expanse of marsh near Vyazma..."