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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
Back onto the 8th ID navigational error - it seems that the officer responsible wasn't in a combat unit at the front, but rather a staff officer. In that light a navigational error seems a little more likely - the wrong information was supplied to the units on the ground rather than an individual officer misreading the map or compass.
Still, nobody checked his work? 
Possible I suppose since they were in action and short handed.... |
I'd be more inclined to believe the staff officer got confused and sent someone up the wrong road, and then the Soviets started attacking from multiple directions. It doesn't even have to be the whole division sent the wrong way, but some vital element, like a notable chunk of the engineers or fuel trucks. Something that the rest of the formation would want to go rescue.