Hell at the South-West Front
Near Kletskaja village
Katyusha lunchers introducing

Voronovs barrage
A hail of 80 minutes lasting
Screaming shrapnel steel

Grinding stunned Romanians
In disorder they flee


Falling on soil that never was theirs
Mercilessly chased by unknown heirs
Dying eyes meet furious Soviet wrath

Cautiously determined, striking hard

Meanwhile from the Donfront

Comes the second $$#ault
A large number of forces
Impossible to halt

Chaos is complete
As a third attack begins
Pincer movements leading all

Towards the Kalatsj bridge

MGs rip and tear through hardened flesh

Massive seem the dark tank silhouettes
Invulnerable deadly T-34
Hear the Stormoviks in the sky roar


Essential coordination
As important as speed

Don't give Fritz the time
To get back on his frozen feet
The brave heroic 62nd

Of Tsjukov stood it's ground
Between Don and Volga
Soldiers bodies mount


Now surrounding according to plan
330, 000 men

Left to die without ammo or food
The crucial offensive of WW II