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Each day brought nearer the anniversary-June 22-of Hitler's march into Russia. It is not a date which Hitler can easily let pass without some major blow, somewhere. No such blow came last week. From the Leningrad front to the Sea of Azov, the leashed armies sniped at each other with local air and land forays. For all save the dead and the wounded, these forays may have been merely the interim routine of war. Or they may have been the preludes to decisive battle...
...Farther south, the Russians pulled another sneak near the Sea of Azov, advancing 115 miles beyond German-held Taganrog. Here their ultimate aim was to choke oft' German communications into the vital Crimea...
Farther south in the Ukraine, Marshal Timoshenko, of whom much had been expected, was following through on the Rostov victory, driving the Germans farther back from the oil of the Caucasus. His troops fanned out for an attack on Mariupol, on the Sea of Azov...
Heavy German artillery at Kerch, the eastern harbor of the peninsula, could dominate the narrow straits and cut off whatever units of the Soviet Black Sea fleet might be left in the Sea of Azov...
...addition to stalling the drive on Moscow, the Russians claimed to have stopped the German sweep along the Sea of Azov toward the oil port of Rostov completely, and there were reports of rain, snow, and howling winds on the Russian plains which indicated that the Moscow front would not much longer be conductive to mechanized warfare. But meantime the Germans were hurling their machines, into the battle furiously...