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...plains before Stalingrad. But southward the North Caucasian flatlands were suffering the same fate as the Dutch-Belgian lowlands. The Germans had wheeled south of Marshal Timoshenko's main defenses and were overrunning lightly defended territory up to the Caucasian foothills. Their swift advance down the transCaucasian railway left one body of the Red Army, probably a small one, cut off as were the British at Dunkirk. Instead of a Channel, the Black Sea was at the Russians' back. Already the Germans were bombing transports which they said the Red Army was using in a small-scale Dunkirk...
LONDON--U. S. Army fighter pilots, getting their baptism of fire in the battle of Europe, have been in action against the Germans 31 times in two days supporting the RAF, which sent out an estimated 500 bombers last night for another smashing attack on the railway center of Mainz, it was announced today...
Japan's main targets are bound to be two: Vladivostok in the southeast, and the famed Trans-Siberian Railway, the long and vulnerable artery of Russian Asia (see map). Since Russia lost the shorter, more direct Chinese Eastern Railway through conquered Manchuria to Vladivostok, the Trans-Siberian has been the U.S.S.R.'s only land link with her Pacific port. And the Trans-Siberian is perilously open to attack: by land and air from northwestern Manchukuo, by land across the wide but easily passable Gobi (which, for all its fearsome reputation, is more like Nebraska and the Dakotas than...
...compartment and looked down. I peered out of the side. Below was the green, mucky lake and black smoke was rising from it. "That's damn poor bombing," said Morgan. But as the plane swerved further we saw flowers of smoke issuing from the heart of the railway station...
...north (see p. 21) and in the east, particularly in Kiangsi Province, where by a series of explosive sallies it made the Jap's life miserable. It shook his hold from the eastern railroad net, sliced a big piece out of the vital Chekiang-Kiangsi railway he had spent so much blood to win. From Shensi Province in the inland north to Kwangtung on the southeast coast it snatched villages from the invaders. It lost others, but always it fought...