Bombing of Stalingrad Stuka "Geschwader" mounted 320 sorties against the Soviet positions on the west bank, dropping 540 tons of bombs on them. Over the course of the battle through to late 1942, the Germans flew 70,000 sorties dropping over a million bombs. Bombing of Stalingrad Stalingrad, a Soviet city and industrial centre on the river Volga, was bombed heavily by the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II. German land forces comprising the 6th Army had advanced to the suburbs of Stalingrad by August 1942. The city was firebombed with 1,000 tons of high explosives and incendiaries in 1,600
What Now concept established early on. In 1989 the show moved to TVNZ 2 and then in 1996 to Sunday mornings. An after school version of "What Now", "What Now PM", also ran on TVNZ 2 during the week between 1997 and 2002. The weekdays version of What Now? became its own separate show known as WNTV. First hosted by Carolyn Taylor and a face in a computer screen played by Mikey Carpenter. Later the show changed dramatically but kept the same WNTV name. It became a drama showing behind the scenes of a children's afternoon magazine show. This was hosted by