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...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 railroaded supplies out of vulnerable Orel to Karachev and Bryansk the next day, Red bombers attacked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Reds' Round | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

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