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...R.A.F. losses over northern France and underground reports from Occupied Europe all attest to strong German armies waiting in western Europe, a 25-mile layer of heavy guns, pillboxes and concrete fortresses along the Channel coast, air and armored forces waiting at central points to rush to any invasion sector. Germany's "Commander in the West," tough, wrinkled Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, unquestionably had real and formidable defenses to inspect when he toured them last week...
...high morale of Colonel Rivenshstein's group unfortunately does not alter the fact, attested by Moscow communiques and dispatches, that the German air force has had decisive numerical superiority on the southern front. A local exception to this rule was the Voronezh sector...
...plains beside the Don the battle has only begun. Already it is erupting and spreading along the vast Russian front. No Russian loss or retreat in any one sector will be a final loss. But if the Germans win this battle-and in the Don sector they were still winning this week-the war will be indefinitely lengthened; the 1939-42 phase of it will be definitely lost. The U.S. and Great Britain, invading Hitler's Europe and fighting him on his own fronts, will then have an infinitely harder task than Hitler had in Russia. And it will...
...armored columns as they did in last year's battles. But last week there were differences, and the differences favored the Germans. When the Red soldiers found a group of German tanks, they also found German artillery and mortars, bunched to answer the Russian fire. And, in vital sectors, Moscow had to admit that, for all the Red Army's brilliant artillery and anti-tank tactics, for all its carefully devised defense-in-depth, the Germans with their composite columns outnumbered the Russians in men and weapons. Ominous, too, was Moscow's statement that in at least...
...thousand tanks, 1,000 on each side, were reported clashing on one narrow sector around Voronezh amid a bedlam of bursting bombs and shells. The sky was full of planes, as many as 120 German fighters swarming out in a single formation...