Word: astrakhans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eyes on Astrakhan. As the Germans hammered east from Rostov, it apeared that Nazi strategists might be planning to by-pass Stalingrad, whose defense lines for three weeks have remained relatively unchanged in the Don bend. Cutting the Volga at Astrakhan would be just as effective as servering it at Stalingrad. Between the German forces bulging east from Rostov and their river objective lie only rolling steppes, covered with slivery feather grass, ridged with few hills, marked by few towns. It is terrain eminently suitable for mechanized warfare. Part is scorching desert now, particularly as it slopes down...
Stalingrad Under Fire. The fluid front aimed toward Astrakhan also presented a new threat to Stalingrad. A Don river crossing southwest of the city raised the menace of encirclement from that direction, though the Red Army put up a foot-by-foot defense...
Lucius Beebe showed up in a tweed-and-gaberdine reversible with an astrakhan collar...