Corgi World War II Operation Barbarossa PzKpfw V Panther Ausf. D Limited Edition

 

MAN Sd.Kfz.171 Panther

5.5"

3"

On January 15, the Leningrad Front launched two strong attacks, one south of the city and the other from the pocket around Oranienbaum to the east. On January 19 the Soviet troops completed the liberation of Leningrad. Thereafter the entire left flank of Army Group North cracked. On February 13 they were forced to order the army group back into the Panther Line, the Narva River-Lake Peipus-Lake Pskov section of the East Wall. The Panther Line was the only major part of the wall on which substantial work had been done, and when the army group reached it on March 1, it held.