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...Northern Sector...
...Berlin or Moscow communiqués, but Moscow reported this week that fighting was going on "in Stalingrad." The heaviest pressure and steadiest German progress was from the southwest, toward the Volga bend directly below Stalingrad. There the Germans had lost as many as 60 tanks on a single sector, but slowly they thundered...
...each sector it was a battle for one hillock, one valley, then another and another. These separate battles made, in their whole, a struggle which may rank with Tours, Waterloo and the First Battle of the Marne among the conflicts that shape the world. The battle for Stalingrad will certainly stand among the great feats of arms; the very fact that the Germans' Marshal Fedor von Bock was able to keep 500,000 or more men in battle, so far from their main bases, at the fighting end of fantastically inadequate transport routes, placed him with the masters...
...Over the tortuous Allied supply lines-by plane across Africa, by ship around Africa's tip-some men and equipment had reached them, but their losses at Tobruk had been great. Last week members of a U.S. ground crew established camp, raised the U.S. flag over a tiny sector of the desert. Medium bombers flown by U.S. pilots have been flying alongside British bombers for some weeks; harassing Axis supply lines. The British had superiority in the air before the fall of Tobruk. They probably still...
When the madness passed, Bock went back on the Russian front: he had Rundstedt's old southern sector, and this time knifed through and past Rostov. So did Leeb, in his old Leningrad sector. "Der General" went back to harness, too, and der Führer had honored him with one of the Reich's most important but least thankful commands. In France, at the first, it was quiet and there was much building to do. Now there are more invasion barges on the beaches, more gunfire in the night, and the skies are laced with the bright...