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...Adolf Hitler's strategy in Russia. He struck at the center, at Bialystok, Minsk, Smolensk, and won great victories which alarmed the Russians. He then went to work on the southern flank, the Ukraine (see below). Finally, last week, he concentrated on the northern flank, the Leningrad sector (see below). If he succeeded in turning both flanks he would then be ready to strike again at the center-and the center is Moscow...
This book makes the U.S. Civil War real, tragic, fantastic and much more read able than World War II. Author Leech's (Mrs. Ralph Pulitzer) literary sector is the home front at the point where all its conflicts were most fiercely focused -Washington, D.C. Her purpose: to show the city and the nation that converged...
Under the Tukhachevsky system, an Army corps (three divisions), called to defend a given sector, would move up to the enemy on a front only about 20 miles wide-but about 80 miles deep. It would then dispose itself not in lines, but in densely packed islands. Nearest the enemy the islands would be minuscule: just isolated machine-gun nests. Farther back the islands would grow into larger machine-gun clusters, field-gun emplacements, antitank batteries, then larger pools comprising whole battalions and companies, then huge field fortresses (built by sappers in from two to five days) surrounded by smaller...
...most awesome bombing sequence yet filmed of World War II. The target is Chungking on Aug. 19 and 20, 1940. While scores of Japanese bombers poured some 200 tons of bombs into the defenseless city, Photographer Scott stood on the roof of the American Embassy 800 yards from the sector where most of them fell, and made his color shots. They are infinitely more frightening than a black-&-white bombing. The camera pans from the neat Japanese formations of 36 planes in threes in the blue sky to the crimson splash of bursting bombs, the lavender and purple clouds...
...German opening attack struck at every sector of the arc. Only as the attack developed could the main drives be singled out with assurance...