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...night last week Moscow's foreign correspondents attended a preview of what may be the finest documentary war film ever made. Entitled June 13th, the picture is a 70-minute record of one day's land, sea and air battles from the Baltic to Sevastopol, plus superb shots of activities behind the Russian front. Lacking propaganda-as-such, June 13th may prove to be the most convincing report to date of the terrible determination of the Russian fight. To get scenes the government sent out 160 cameramen. Twenty lost their lives...
...effulgent moon lighted the way to German U-boat yards at Flensburg on the Baltic. Munich, Naziism's spawning ground, and the Saar industrial basin were also raided. Swiss reports said that damage to Munich had caused the cancellation of a big Nazi party...
Sorrow for Stalingrad tempered Russia's somber pride in Leningrad. The tsar-made city on the Baltic, entering its second year of siege, presented to Russia and the world an epic of agony and heroism which in its duration and sustained intensity exceeded even the siege of Sevastopol...
...sacrifice helped prevent the German from shattering Russia's Murmansk supply route and enabled Russia to keep Kronstadt, its last base in the Baltic. From Kronstadt Russian submarines and other survivors of the Red Fleet last week were still harassing Axis ships in the Gulf of Finland. On the Karelian Isthmus Russian soldiers were still holding off Finnish assaults. Leeb's armies, which once had plunged 125 miles east, now had been pushed back 100 miles and were holding a corridor only eight miles wide stretching north to Lake Ladoga (see map). Against both sides of the corridor...
...Volga on its broad back carries the steel, oil. ore. tanks, guns and food of a vast chain of industrial cities stretching from its headwaters, between Leningrad and Moscow, to the salty Caspian. Canals, first dreamed of by Peter the Great, connect it with the Baltic. The Caspian is a gateway to Baku, to Iran and the outside world. Already Nazi bombers were pounding Volga shipping...