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...photos made after the raids on Rostock and Lübeck indicate that this is at least partially the case. They show enormous destruction. Travelers on an airliner from London to Stockholm reported they had seen the red glare of Rostock's flames for 250 miles across the Baltic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: Second Front in the Air | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

...crisis for Leningrad was pointed to by Moscow's announcement last week that a Nazi battleship* and a 9,000-ton transport had been sunk by the Red Banner Baltic Fleet. Perhaps all-out R.A.F. attacks on Lübeck and Rostock, German Baltic supply bases, indicated the same thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Ring Around Leningrad | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

Besieged since Aug. 8, Leningrad is still ringed some 30 miles away by Nazi guns. Capture of Leningrad would 1) isolate the Kronstadt naval base, opening the Baltic as a German supply line to the northern front; 2) clear direct communications to Finland; 3) penetrate the Russian right flank, making the menace to Moscow even graver than last year's; 4) prepare for supplying and manning a major offensive to cut Russia's vital, northern supply line via Murmansk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Ring Around Leningrad | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

Most pulverizing British air attack since the R.A.F. punished the Baltic port of Lübeck in March occurred at another Baltic port, Rostock, 60 miles away. In one hour one night British airmen dropped the "greatest weight of bombs" ever delivered in one package by the R.A.F. The following night the British were back again. The night after that, and the night after that, they were back yet again & again. When they left they were certain that it would be a long time before Rostock, staggering under the weight of 800 tons of bombs, would function efficiently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Second Aerial Front | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

There was urgency about this, the only significant action on the Russian front last week. Only by shoving the Finns back could the Russians free the southern end of the Murmansk-Leningrad railroad and ensure the swift flow of goods from the Arctic port to the Baltic battlefront...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Urgency In the Snow | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

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