Question: During the last phases of a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad which general lead a raid that was designed to force the Germans to divert forces?

<P0-S0>  It was designed to force the Germans to divert forces attempting to relieve the 6th Army trapped in Stalingrad. <P0-S1>  The Soviet force captured its objective, the Luftwaffe's airfield at Tatsinskaya, destroying over 72 aircraft on the ground, but was left cut off and without supplies. <P0-S2> The Tatsinskaya Raid was a Soviet armoured raid deep into the German rear conducted by 24th Tank Corps under the command of Major General Vasily Mikhaylovich Badanov in late December 1942, during the last phases of the Battle of Stalingrad (Operation Little Saturn). <P0-S3>  Despite the loss of most of the tank corps during the ensuing breakout, the raid was a great operational victory. <SEP> <P1-S0> The Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943) was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern Russia. <SEP> <P2-S0> The Siege of Sevastopol also known as the Defence of Sevastopol (Russian: Оборона Севастополя , transliteration: "Oborona Sevastopolya") or simply the Battle of Sevastopol (German: Schlacht um Sewastopol) was a military battle and a siege that took place on the Eastern Front of the Second World War. <P2-S1>  The campaign was fought by the Axis powers of Germany, Romania, and Italy against the Soviet Union for control of Sevastopol, a port in the Crimea on the Black Sea. <P2-S2>  On 22 June 1941 the Axis invaded the Soviet Union during Operation Barbarossa. <P2-S3>  Axis land forces reached the Crimea in the autumn of 1941 and overran most of the area. <P2-S4>  The only objective not in Axis hands was Sevastopol. <P2-S5>  Several attempts were made to secure the city in October and November 1941. <P2-S6>  A major attack was planned for late November, but heavy rains delayed the Axis attack until 17 December 1941. <P2-S7>  Under the command of Erich von Manstein, Axis forces were unable to capture Sevastopol during this first operation. <P2-S8>  Soviet forces launched an amphibious landing on the Crimean peninsula at Kerch in December 1941 to relieve the siege and force the Axis to divert forces to defend their gains. <P2-S9>  The operation saved Sevastopol for the time being, but the bridgehead in the eastern Crimea was eliminated in May 1942. <SEP> <P3-S0> Stopped at Stalingrad: The Luftwaffe and Hitler's Defeat in the East, 1942-1943 is a book that analyzed the role of Hitler's use and control of the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Stalingrad between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II. <P3-S1>  Written by New Zealand-born British scholar Joel S. A. Hayward, it discusses at length the various reasons for Hitler's invasion, the consequences, the major battles of the Eastern Front and the role of the Luftwaffe in these areas, along with the hierarchy of the Luftwaffe itself. <P3-S2>  The book deals with how Hitler's control of the Luftwaffe during this battle ultimately led to the German loss at the Battle of Stalingrad, the turning point against the Germans in World War II.