Battle of Stalingrad Soviet Union. The initial objectives in the region around Stalingrad were the destruction of the industrial capacity of the city and the deployment of forces to block the Volga River. The river was a key route from the Caucasus and the Caspian Sea to central Russia. Its capture would disrupt commercial river traffic. The Germans cut the pipeline from the oilfields when they captured Rostov on 23 July. The capture of Stalingrad would make the delivery of Lend Lease supplies via the Persian Corridor much more difficult. On 23 July 1942, Hitler personally rewrote the operational objectives for the 1942
My Name Is Pecos My Name Is Pecos Due once di piombo (internationally released as My Name Is Pecos, also known as "Il mio nome è Pecos") is a 1967 Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Maurizio Lucidi. The film represents the first successful chapter in the ""Pecos"" film series starred by Robert Woods. It was followed by "Pecos Cleans Up". John Madoc witnessed as a child how Joe Kline had John's family wiped out. By now John is a grown man who's out for revenge but Joe Kline has a whole city under his sway. All too soon John is made and Kline's