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...result has been the most rapid conquest of territory in modern history. In the first 38 days of their onslaught, the Russians pushed their enemy out of 110,000 square miles. Every hour, on the average, they had swept over 121 square miles. In 38 days the Russians claimed to have killed and captured more than a half million German troops. From Vitebsk to Warsaw, they had traveled more than halfway to Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Citizens, Listen! | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

...invasion called out Dr. Kung's shrewdest, toughest talents. The Jap blockade of the China coast ended the country's biggest source of revenue-customs receipts-and the Jap conquest of the northern salt mines cut off the second largest source, the salt tax. In his softest mandarin manner, Dr. Kung wheedled governments and bankers from the U.S. to Czechoslovakia for credit. He upped taxes as much as the sweating coolies could stand, winked at the grafters and then squeezed the squeezers. Gradually he was forced to open the floodgates of inflation wider & wider until it has many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Mission of Daddy Kung | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

Were the carrier-aircraft strikes at Guam merely preparatory blows, like that of Feb. 21-22? Or were they the curtain-raiser for a lightning amphibious conquest patterned after Tarawa and Kwajalein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Curtain Raiser? | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

...peak of this victory, Alexander was told to give up his command to become General Eisenhower's deputy. He complied without a murmur, produced for his chief a battle plan that trapped 150,000 Germans in Tunisia. After the conquest of Sicily, in which he earned a large share of credit, he succeeded Eisenhower in Italy with the reputation in many quarters of being the ablest commander in Britain's service. Given a set of real chances, the officer long recognized as the most aggressive in the British Army had finally become a figure on the victory pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF ITALY: Nightmare's End | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

...Axis soil, the Russians forced the river crossing at several points and advanced along a 165-mile front. One column was reported within 200 miles of Bucharest and the valuable Ploesti oilfields. Moscow newspapers proudly printed dispatches datelined "Across the Border," although Moscow already had disavowed any plans of conquest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Before the Fir-lined Passes | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

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