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...city's name was Bryansk...
...Russians struck at Novorossiisk from land and sea, stormed through its concrete defenses and blazing ruins, captured it on the fifth day. On the following day thousands of other men crossed the Desna under a murderous German fire, took the burning shell of the city that once was Bryansk. In Moscow, gun salvos announced the double victory...
Victories. Bryansk and Novorossiisk were only two of a thousand victories, large and small, scored during the past week. From Velikie Luki southward, nine Red Army groups totaling perhaps 3,000,000 men were surging forward, crushing enemy "hedgehogs," sending the foe reeling back. Last week these armies...
...even from crying infants. But the mines did not delay the Red Army long, and the Germans had to abandon many of their supply dumps. Food and ammunition by the trainload fell into Russian hands. On a single airfield in the south the Reds captured 19 undamaged planes. Near Bryansk, they seized land mines stacked in Teutonically neat mounds...
This week, the Russians stormed into Bryansk, pivotal stronghold of the Nazi's central and southern fronts, after overrunning the railway network on the east bank of the Desna, climbing over the bodies of some 2,000 German troops...