Word: break-through
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...watch over us when it must concentrate its full power on guarding the important coast. This is a fight to finish and our fate is in the balance. Then we should not be in a way of the Army when it needs every ounce of manpower to prevent more break-through of the enemy on far distant front lines, and we, as loyal citizens of this country, can better serve the nation by working on inland farms instead of remaining here to increase the worry and anxiety of our fellow Caucasian citizens on the coast...
...whether Russia's center drive was a series of quickly improvised actions or a full-fledged counteroffensive, such as the late Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky plotted in the Red strategy books (TIME, Aug. 25). Marshal Tukhachevsky's ideas, as developed by disciples, called for a carefully prepared initial break-through by a "shock" army of twelve divisions (228,000 men) on a 30-mile front, supported by 2,500 artillery pieces, 960 tanks, 600 planes...
...with the Germans going deep into the stretch between the Bug and Dnieper Rivers, then swinging south to encircle the Russians at the Black Sea ports. Frontally the German gains eastward were out of all linear proportion to the great flanking sweeps which made the gains possible. A great break-through near Uman, 120 miles south of Kiev, paved the way for the final dash south to the Black Sea. By week's end the Germans claimed to have rolled across the Krivoi Rog iron-ore area, which had supplied 59% of Russia's raw iron...
...even listen to Rundstedt. Rundstedt is easily the most experienced German commander. He alone of the present crop of generals was an Army Corps Chief of Staff in World War I. He will go down in German history as a hero because it was he who devised the break-through at Sedan early last summer, and it was his tank generals, Guderian and Kleist, who executed...
...German break-through this week was as extensive as the Nazis claimed, there was only one substantial Soviet hope left: the classic scorched earth. How well was it working last week...