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Well to the north, fighting was renewed in the Voronezh sector, but with force insufficient to divert German pressure from Stalingrad. To the south, Krasnodar fell and the Germans swept deeper into the Caucasus...
...cover the entire coast against a major attack anywhere. But Panzers have mobility, and Rundstedt has placed them where they can use it. One of them is probably stationed near Rennes, for a quick dash up the roads to any threatened point in the Brest-St.-Malo-Cherbourg sector. Another is stationed near Amiens, has the Havre-Dieppe-Boulogne line to back up (last week it dashed to Dieppe to meet the Canadians). The third is reported to be quartered at Ghent, covers the Calais-Ostend-Flushing zone...
Before Stalingrad the Russians had been able to call almost every German hand, though at tremendous cost and with the possibility that the Wehrmacht's blue chips soon might be stacked too high for the Red Army. It was on this sector that the Germans had massed their greatest strength. They hammered forward last week to occupy most of the great eastward bend of the Don, where it comes within 48 miles of Stalingrad and the Volga, Russia's next line of defense...
...height No. 60.8, the decisive point, our division's sector attack has rolled to a halt. The Soviets are sitting tight in a mighty system of forts. But with our new weapons, the heavy mortars, we will out-smite them just as we did at Kerch...
...Just as we have experienced many defeats in armed warfare, so have we suffered many losses in the sector of news and information. From Pearl Harbor to the Java Sea, from the Java Sea to Murmansk and the Aleutians we have failed to utilize the great tonic that the stark realism of bad news can give a determined and united people...