Operation Typhoon: Episode 9

German's final, final assault on the capital of the USSR in November 1941.  Map 1: The Battle of Moscow, November 1941. Map 20: The bigger picture.  Source: U.S. Army archives.  Soviets fighting back during "offensive weather": Rasputitsa:  Defense of Moscow:  Women militia training in Moscow, fall 1941: New T-34 tanks roll off the assembly line, 1941 Soviet air power:  The Yakovlev Yak fighter Ilyushin Il-2 in flight near Moscow, December 1941 Winter  Abandoned German vehicles in the snow, on the highway from Volokolamsk to Moscow, December 1941: Wrecked Panzer III, December 1941: