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Farther north, the maiden's soldier only a month before had begun his attack against Orel, opening with a devastating barrage from (dispatches said) 3,000 gun barrels to a mile of front. Now he was pushing crack young German troops back on Bryansk and fighting 1,000 German planes a day that hammered at his ad vance...
...German drive on Kursk spent itself, then had launched a mighty counterattack. This quickly developed into a two-pronged offensive-actually two offensives - along a 300-mile front. One prong jabbed hard at the heels of the Germans routed at Orel, liberated hundreds of Russian villages and advanced toward Bryansk. Farther to the north, other Russian forces stabbed southwest from Vyazma toward the main Nazi base at Smolensk...
...along the front the massed strength of the Red Air Force proved a heavy factor in blasting paths through the German defenses. At Kharkov and Bryansk, the Russians reported, many German trains were destroyed from the air and more than 30 fires were started...
...Objectives. The Russian push toward Bryansk, if successful, would open the path to Smolensk as well as yield the Russians control over the six main rail roads radiating from Bryansk. The pincers movement converging on Kharkov threat ens the German-occupied Donets basin, most valuable prize of the Nazis in Russia...
...days they advanced 25 miles toward Orel from three directions, liberating no towns and villages. They routed five German divisions; five others "suffered a heavy defeat." By last week's end, twelve days after the counterattack began, they had pressed on past Orel, to within 35 miles of Bryansk. German communications with the Orel garrison were being pinched off (see map). For the first time in Russia, where the main forces of Germany were still engaged, the Red Army had the summer initiative. A test was under way, a victory was in sight which could mean more...