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...Moscow-Rostov railway, which runs parallel to, and just west of, the Don along part of its course, connects the capital with southern Russia and the Caucasus, and, like the river, feeds much of Russia's industrial and military machine...
...Moscow itself. For the Germans driving eastward to the Don and the railway, were striking indirectly at Russia's heart, seeking to cut it off from the main body of the U.S.S.R. This tactic alone, if it succeeded, would be a crushing blow to Russia...
...week confirmed Berlin's major claims: at some points the Germans had advanced 85 and 100 miles and more to the Don itself; German columns were converging toward the key city of Voronezh, just east of the Don, and midway between Moscow and Rostov on the all-important railway to the Caucasus...
...have increased her immediate difficulties tenfold. She is bewildered by the crushing defeats America and Britain have suffered. Her Burma Road-her so-called lifeline-has been cut. Half the army she sent to Burma may never return. Japan has launched a new attack, designed to conquer her remaining railway lines and perhaps eventually capture Kunming and deliver a death blow...
Immediately at stake in the Kursk and Kharkov fighting was the important Moscow-Rostov railway, which not only supplies the Russian armies along a vast front south of Moscow, but leads to the Caucasus and its oil. If the Germans cut this railroad, as they did last year when they briefly held Rostov, they will be well on their way to the Caucasus. And, on their way to the railway, they will have to inflict great defeats on the Red Army-the only kind of defeats which can win the summer campaign for Hitler. This week those defeats were still...