Word: belgorod
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...fall of Orel and Belgorod last week prompted the Russians to raise again the question of a second front in western Europe. Thirty divisions of Germans diverted from the Russian front, they thought, could so weaken the Wehrmacht's line that the Red Army could clean the Germans up in 1943. So once more they needled their Allies...
...Said the Russian communiqué on the victories at Orel and Belgorod: "More favorable conditions are created for the development of active offensive operations by our allies on the Continent...
...Orel cracked and crumbled, there was a thunderous echo from the south. From a series of intermittent clashes, an other huge Soviet force emerged in a swift and surprise smash at Belgorod. Within a single day that key to the lush grainfields of the Ukraine and the rich industrial Donets basin fell, too, and the Red Army crushed...
Hitler's Orel salient seemed doomed. If it fell and if the Red Army also succeeded in liquidating the Belgorod salient, the Russians would be free to make the move the Germans probably feared most -a push southward toward the Sea of Azov, which would cut off the industrial Donets basin and trap large German forces. If this operation could be executed, the great westward march would be under...
Moscow said that the Germans used six panzer divisions (200 tanks each), a motorized division, and seven infantry divisions in the opening attacks from Orel; five regular tank divisions, four smaller armored divisions (150 tanks each), and seven infantry divisions in the attacks from Belgorod-where the Russians made their only admissions of sustained German gains. In an aside to the U.S. and Britain, Moscow also said that the Germans had transferred, two bomber fleets and one night-fighter fleet from Western Europe...