The Grable shot of Operation Upshot-Knothole - the first and
only nuclear artillery shell ever fired as part of the United
States’ nuclear weapons testing program. Its yield was just
under that of the Little Boy atomic bomb. May 1953 Posts tagged
military. February 2, 1943: The Battle of Stalingrad ends. The
decisive and bloody five month-long battle at Stalingrad, widely
considered the turning point in the European Theatre of the
Second World War, ended seventy years ago in a crushing defeat
for German forces and marked sort of a beginning of the end for
the Third Reich. The battle began in August of 1942, when a
massive bombing campaign by the Luftwaffe reduced the entire
city to rubble; Stalingrad soon became a conflict of both
practical (the city was an industrial center) and symbolic
importance. The Battle of Stalingrad was characterized by
massive casualties on both sides: an estimated 850,000 Germans
were killed, wounded, or declared missing, and a further 100,000
died in captivity; over 400,000 people