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...Heavily gunned German blockhouses, pillboxes and fortified ravines were reduced by the famed, straight-shooting Russian artillery. Overhead U.S. and British-made bombers dropping three-and four-ton bombs cooperated with Soviet Stormoviks in attacks on enemy tank and troop concentrations and on German nerve centers at Orel and Bryansk. In a vain attempt to stem the tide, the Luftwaffe flew as many as 1,500 sorties in a single day, but the sky was full of Russian planes. The Germans could not win the air supremacy they needed...
...Russia last week both the Luftwaffe and German communications centers took a beating from the Red Air Force. Russian bombing attacks were focused on the central front, in the Smolensk-Bryansk-Orel sector, where 90 Nazi divisions are concentrated. Russian bombardiers blasted, and left burning, railway depots, trains, fuel and ammunition dumps at Bryansk, Karachev, Smolensk and Roslavl, and technical and engineering supply depots at Krasni Bor. The heaviest single attack was a 520-plane blast against the big German rail and supply base of Orel. Bomb and fire damage to supply depots and railways was heavy. When the Nazis...
...Force concentrated on the sectors where the Russians evidently spotted the heaviest German concentrations-on the central front, bombing such communication centers as Bryansk, Minsk, Dniepropetrovsk, Kremenchug, Belgorod, Orel. Moscow claimed that 930 German planes had been destroyed or damaged...
...shifted . . . in harmony with the general trend of fighting into the northern direction." Having retaken Kharkov, having consolidated positions on the western bank of the Donets, the German efforts crept to the Belgorod Sector, 45 miles north of Kharkov, to the Kursk sector, 120 miles north, to the Bryansk sector, 250 miles northwest of Kharkov. Smolensk is 145 miles northwest of Bryansk...
LONDON--Russian troops have captured more than 40 inhabited places in a single day in their two-pronged drive on Smolensk, have killed 5,500 Germans in three days in a ferocious battle north of Bryansk and are holding firm along their Donets River front in the south, the Russian Monday midnight communique reported today...