Word: voronezh
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...Voronezh to Kursk. The line that the Germans hoped to hold in the south became fairly clear. If they could keep Kursk and Kharkov-the starting points of their summer drive-and retain a line swerving southeastward to Rostov, they would still have the main arteries of their principal supply system and most of the industrially rich Donets basin. Fortnight ago, the Red Army seemed to have a chance to threaten this "last line." This week, after they completed the repossession of Voronezh and swept westward, the Russians were actually attacking the outer bastions of that line near Kursk...
...whole south of Russia the Axis had little left to show for 1942. From Voronezh to the sea, the Axis lines had been shortened very nearly to the breaking point...
Leader at Voronezh, where the Red Army is driving on Kursk and Kharkov, is Colonel General Filip I, Golikov, 48. A tall, husky man with a broad face, he is one of Russia's principal tank experts. At war's start he was a key member of the General Staff, but when Moscow was threatened he took command of a field army. His offensive may well turn out to be the most important of all the winter drives...
MOSCOW--Russian troops have killed or captured 18,000 more Germans in a battle of annihilation against seven divisions trapped west of Voronezh and have driven down the railroad to with in 31 miles of Kursk, a special Soviet communique said today...
Survivors of the German army encircled by a swift Soviet pincers maneuver west of Voronezh have been chopped into several groups which are being wiped out one by one, the High Command said...