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Into the headquarters of thin-lipped Junker von Bock, who has squandered men to win and lose some of Nazi Germany's greatest battles,* poured military dispatches that told him his foe was all but whipped in the northern Caucasus, that Timoshenko's main strength was apparently concentrated in a vast arc before Stalingrad, that German positions along the Don at Voronezh were safe for the moment. Bock might be on the threshold of an even greater victory. He could look with satisfaction on what his Panzers, shock troops, snub-nosed caterpillar guns and rank-on-rank...
Iron Pig. But Bock was too astute a commander to underestimate either his remaining hurdles or the wily stubbornness of his foe. He had only to read details of the southern battle to understand...
...Where Bock's tanks outnumbered Timoshenko's, sometimes as much as 4-to-1, the Russians had laid ambushes. Along a two-mile front they had sunk half a dozen light tanks into the earth as pillboxes. Three or four other tanks were left free to attempt to lure German tanks into the line of fire, with some success. But still the Germans pushed...
Cuckoos. To keep advancing, Bock and his staff were digging deep into their bag of tricks...
...Tank detachments thundered forward to locate enemy batteries by provoking fire. Many Nazi tanks were thus destroyed, but to Bock the gain was well worth the sacrifice...