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...Kursk; perhaps Timoshenko preferred to wait until the Kharkov pocket was deeper, the Germans more vulnerable. But last week, when he wanted to attack by air at the upper edge of the pocket, he had to shuttle planes from the south, then quickly return them to the threatened Izyum sector...
...Allied effort in World War II is directed mainly by two of the 28 United Nations: the U.S. and Great Britain, in the persons of Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. Russia in one sector and China in another have major shares of the burden, but they have very vague shares in Allied direction...
...cuts the chief supply line from the U.S. to Russia and the U.S. Army's air-ferry lines to India and China. It recited the enormous value of the Allies' North African bases, within air reach of the Middle East, Russia and southern Europe (where a European sector could be opened by sea-and-air action across the Mediterranean...
...clear record of insistence that North Africa is vital, that it is a hub of the Allied war scheme. Still, with the probability of a vast German attack on Russia, and existence of a major Japanese attempt to crush China, danger to the United Nations loomed on every sector of the battlefront. And nowhere had there yet been signs of an offensive to endanger the Axis. All the signs pointed to a summer of bad news for the Allies...
...German armies, in their preparatory spring attacks, have already shown a few new tricks. Essence of these new tactics is to choose a very narrow sector, smash the selected area with a maximum concentration of planes (the Russians counted 1,000 on a 15-mile line below Kharkov), then strike with closely integrated formations of artillery, infantry and tanks. Full-strength Panzers have not attempted to dart through the enemy lines, swirl at will in the Russian rear. Instead, the Germans apparently keep their tanks in smaller groups, close to artillery and infantry. Thus, while the German pace...