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...Stalin put Marshal Timoshenko in command down south, where the Germans last week threatened to cut Russia off from its oil and from its greatest remaining industrial centers...
...Whole. In one sense these changes of command were rhetorical flourishes. Russia had but one commander, Joseph Stalin. Last week, to dramatize this, Joseph Stalin put on a pair of grey breeches, a blue blouse and top boots-like those he wore in the Civil War against the Whites. So equipped, he went aboard an armored train to serve as commander-in-extreme...
...Leningrad, Germany's official foreign news service, Dienst aus Deutschland, indicated last week that the German High Command was satisfied to hoard this hard nut and not try to crack it. "A prestige attack on this city, in which probably every cellar is loaded with dynamite, would demand sacrifices that cannot be justified, for our really decisive forces are needed on another front...
When Peake Pasha resigned command of the Arab Legion in 1939, Glubb took the whole force over. By World War II's outbreak, with the assistance of four English officers, he had formed the most potent Arab fighting force of the 20th Century. With some armored cars and Chevrolets carrying machine guns, Major Glubb organized his 5,000 Arabs into a desert blitzkrieg unit...
...target of the title is a newly sprung-up clump of naval stores (oil, barges, etc.) spied out by reconnaissance craft at Frei-hausen, Germany. The camera follows the raid preparations: selection of the target by the Chief of the Bomber Command in his great hall papered with maps, cluttered with ceiling-high ladders, scale rulers, calipers, telephones; designation of one experienced squadron to make a low-level attack; instruction of the chosen crews at Millerton Airfield by the Wing Commander; arming, gassing and readying the bombers; and, when night comes, the takeoff...