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...Russian front, where this war may yet be decided, the greatest armies in the world skirmished, probed and par ried. South of Moscow, in the sector where the biggest forces were concentrated, a few Russian battalions seized four German positions. A few German battalions tried & failed to recapture the positions, and to that small extent the Red Army was in better shape to break a major German offensive, or to launch one of its own. Both the Luftwaffe and the Red Air Force, for the first time in the Russian war, turned their main energies to strategic bombing behind...
...Russia last week both the Luftwaffe and German communications centers took a beating from the Red Air 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...
...TIME later reported that Josephine Baker was in North Africa, but this issue evidently failed to reach Reader Baldwin's sector. *TIME, May 3: "186,000 miles an hour...
...several days, armored units made a great show of preparing a break-through to the south of that sector, until the enemy placed his best armor, the remnants of his loth and 21st Panzers, oppo site the diversion...
Again the Eighth. The second factor in the victory was a sneak by important armored and infantry units of the Eighth Army. They hustled from their dormant sector on the southeastern end of the line up to the First Army's toughest sector, the Medjerda Valley approach to Tunis...