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The air supply of the Sixth Army at Stalingrad begins
November 24, 1942
Ju 52s were the backbone of the desperate attempt to supply the encircled German Sixth Army at Stalingrad by air. Between 24 November 1942 and 31 January 1943, 488 aircraft were lost on flights to and from the pocket, 266 of them Ju 52s, shot down by Soviet anti-aircraft fire and fighters.