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...chances of accomplishing this were enhanced by the work of the Allies' Tactical Air Force, which flew last week as it had never flown before. On one sector a correspondent counted a plane a minute going over to attack Axis positions. On the U.S. II Corps front, whenever an officer asked to have a hill dusted, Boston attack planes arrived within an hour to do the job. The Luftwaffe's fighter strength increased during the week, and the Germans made shrewd use of it on each momentarily crucial sector. But massed planes and massed guns were beginning...
...south, along the Velkhov River, where Germans had lost more than 2,000 men in a savage attack in one sector Monday, Russian artillery blasted the German lines and smashed 17 pill boxes and block houses, the midnight communique said as recorded here from Moscow radio...
...contrast to this showing, weekly earnings of labor went up by 20% during the year and farm prices rose by the same amount to the highest in 21 years. Business was holding its own, but it was still the one big sector of the economy not unduly benefiting from...
Captain Ludwig Sertorius, military commentator for the German Transocean News Service, said: "The German counteroffensive has shifted . . . in harmony with the general trend of fighting into the northern direction." Having retaken Kharkov, having consolidated positions on the western bank of the Donets, the German efforts crept to the Belgorod Sector, 45 miles north of Kharkov, to the Kursk sector, 120 miles north, to the Bryansk sector, 250 miles northwest of Kharkov. Smolensk is 145 miles northwest of Bryansk...
...three years here, Col. Smith has served under four different Professors of Military Science and Tactics, recently witnessing the replacement of Colonel Francis A. Doniat, who left to take command of the War Manpower Commission for a large sector of the Middle West, with Colonel William S. Wood...