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They have cleared the Caucasus, reoccupied almost half of the Ukraine, imperiled the Crimea, reached the borders of White Russia. They have bled the Wehrmacht, destroyed the bulk of its Panzer...
...radio program (3,500,000 listeners): "Mr. Hull and his chief assistants, Adolf Berle, Jimmy Dunn, Breckinridge Long, actually would like to see Russia bled white-and the Russians know...
...Colonel General Vassily Sokolovsky, the captor of Yelnya. A husky, keen-faced, long-nosed man, he is one of the Red Army's ablest tacticians. His myaso-roobka (meat-grinder) concept has dominated Soviet military thought since 1941, has bled Germany white of her young manhood. Sokolovsky's antidote for Blitzkrieg is slow, continuous grinding, a Verdun multiplied a hundredfold. The advance on Smolensk delights him; only two years ago he had trod this very road in retreat...
Once, during the battle, Gurtiev was buried in a cave. Dug out, he moved his headquarters to a huge concrete main beneath the factory ruins. From there he directed the defense-and constant counterattacks. His Siberian division was bled and mauled, but Gurtiev refused to move. Last week Moscow announced that Major General Gurtiev was killed leading his troops in the attack on Orel...
...with gravel driveways now has a settled look. Italian prisoners have installed running water and some of the other comforts of home. The pharmacy hands out prescriptions and runs a blood bank (plasma is not enough for some cases with great blood loss, and the Evac stores whole blood bled from its own personnel). The shock tents give transfusions, prepare men for operations; the operating tent can handle 16 cases an hour around the clock. The dentistry tent with three chairs was for a long time the only place in North Africa where U.S. servicemen could get false teeth...