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...Army, having broken the German siege line at Leningrad (see p. 33), had then to defeat the formidable forces still intact near the city. Below Moscow the preliminary disintegration of Germany's southern positions and communications proceeded: the Russians retook the important railway center of Kamensk, Voronezh and pressed on Voroshilovgrad, advanced from north and south toward the German's pinion position at Rostov. The fall of Salsk and Armavir gave the Red Army a tighter hold upon the railways of the Caucasus, increased the prospect that the retiring Axis forces there can only retreat across the Black...
...added, because other fronts were in distress. Yet here was potentially the greatest threat of all to the integrity of the German front. The one way the Red Army can decisively smash the German position in Russia is to crash through the great lateral Smolensk-Kursk-Kharkov-Crimea railway system into relatively ill-defended positions behind it. This week the drive was still young, the results unclear. In any case it kept thousands of Germans pinned down...
...influenced by the fact that the amount that is shipped is limited to 1000 pounds and the bill of lading must be from one point to another for the whole shipment. This might, however, prove the cheaper solution if several students residing in one town were to join together. Railway Express requires separate crating for each article, which would create considerable difficulties...
...pilots reported that railway yards and at least one illuminating gas storage tank were "were alight...
...chill and windy Kalmuck steppes south of Stalingrad, where the Russians had narrowly repulsed a German counteroffensive, the Red Army still advanced last week. It drove down the Stalingrad-Caucasus railway, took the Germans' strong defense-point at Kotelnikov, and rolled on southward. The Russians said that these operations, like those on the Middle Don and northwest of Stalingrad, were part of the great plan to defeat the Germans on the Volga. The accompanying threat to other German armies in the Caucasus was real enough, but by Moscow's own account it was a future threat...