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Russia. The Red Army blunted the Wehrmacht's most serious counter-threat: its strong wedge in the Kiev sector...
...obscured campaign came a clear description of Wehrmacht defenses, along the Monte Samucre sector of the Fifth Army front. Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart...
Second Class. Inside such fortifications small units held up whole regiments for days. Not only could the enemy cut down on manpower but on first-class manpower. German prisoners taken in the Monte Samucre sector were not top material for Panzer Grenadiers. They did not have to be. Cracked a U.S. officer: "All they had to do was sit in those damn pillboxes and pull a trigger...
...Fifth, like the Eighth, laid down a barrage, the most concentrated of the Italian campaign. All one day 300 Allied planes shuttled between their south Italian runways and the narrow mountain sector around Mignano, gave the Germans a galling taste of nonstop bombing and strafing. At 5:30 p.m. the land guns opened up, did not rest during the night...
...recapture the important rail station of Korosten, the German Command reportedly boosted its forces in the sector by eight fresh tank divisions. Moscow claimed that during the last month in this and other battles west of Kiev the enemy had lost 800 tanks...