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MOSCOW, Wednesday -- Twelve thousand Germans fell on the snow-covered battlefield before Moscow yesterday but still the Germans advanced on the city from the north, west and south, and in an accompanying sweep along the Sea of Azov captured the important port of Maviupol, a communique said today...
After World War I, when the last whiff of smoke was safely blown away, thousands of eager trippers toured the battle fields of France. Last week some of them and their children got a vicarious look at a still-pungent battlefield of World War II -through the eyes of the first U.S. and British correspondents allowed by the Russians to visit the front...
...Signal Corps' one contribution to the Army-Hollywood preview was not a picture, but a sound track writhing with the noise of a modern battlefield. This training film was made for use in Army maneuvers. Its purpose is to simulate the noises made by combat weapons and teach the troops to take...
Washington was sympathetic. To make Meadville a ghost town for lack of 6,300 tons of copper seemed like junking an automobile for lack of a spark plug. That is sometimes necessary on the battlefield. Between armaments and slide fasteners, Washington could make only one choice. This week it was busy with inventory surveys, subcontracting plans, conservation drives (see p. 75), but it was not giving any priorities to Talon...
Naval and marine units occupied Iceland, which lies directly in the battlefield of the Atlantic. This act, which constituted the first U.S. plunge into cold action, was of tremendous strategic importance. It meant that a new visible weight, not just the clatter of it, was actually beginning to loom up in the west against the Germans. At the moment, it loomed not very large -but it loomed...