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...that the Red Army up to now had lacked: great numbers of trucks and other motorized equipment, the means and ability to keep huge supplies of gasoline and munitions moving up behind advancing forces. Upon this supply system, now functioning under difficulties, the outcome of the Russian offensives may depend...
...holes had been closed. But nowhere did the Germans attempt strategic retreats, or show the slightest sign that they intended to withdraw to safer winter lines. Wherever Axis troops lost a position, they gave it up only when they were killed, wounded or captured. The Axis forces had to depend more & more upon air transport, but they still had alternate lines of supply to all the armies-and would have them until the key junction points west of the Don were seized. The Germans' worries showed less in their accounts of the battles than in their home propaganda. Said...
...removal of land mines is the sort of horrifying job that defies description. All armies depend on their-engineers to do it. One detector is a sort of divining rod that works on an electromagnetic circuit, creates a buzz in the engineer's earphones when held over a buried mine. Such equipment is cumbersome on a battlefield, and British sappers prefer the old poke-&-dig method (see cut). Once the mines are discovered, each-whether there are 250 or 25,000-must be dug up with a fine touch...
...being the only paper on most stands and offering a pro forma digest of the other papers' chief comics and columns. (Sample: "Westbrook Pegler: He's still yammering about 'union racketeers'; George Sokolsky: He's not worth quoting either.") The city was forced to depend for most of its news on radio stations, which expanded newscasts and quoted from comics and columnists...
...North Africa, the U.S. advance was stalled for lack of air superiority. From the Solomons came little news of fighting. Sole bright spot on the fighting front was Buna, which finally fell into U.S. hands. But from one battlefront-on which all others ultimately depend-the nation received dramatic news of great successes...