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...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...
...strength. Last week, after a relentless, inch-by-inch, 24-day counterdrive, the powerful Red Army seized Orel and drove on. For nearly two years Orel had been a key bastion of Hitler's forces in Russia. Now the Wehrmacht's high command issued a terse communiqué: "In the course of a shortening of the front in the Orel bend, the evacuation of the city of Orel, which had been planned for quite some time was carried out, undisturbed by the enemy...
...Russian communiqués claimed enormous German losses. Between July 5 and Aug. 5, they said, the Red Army killed 120,000 enemy officers and men and destroyed 4,605 tanks, 1,623 guns, 11,000 lorries and 2,492 planes. For the same period the Russians claimed the capture of 12,418 German officers and men, 621 tanks, 875 guns, 2,521 machine guns, 325 supply dumps. Not listed in the communiqués, but of great value to the Soviet Union, was the recovery of the direct rail link between Moscow, Tula, Orel, Kursk and Belgorod. Russian losses...
...joint communiqué of the British Admiralty and Air Ministry last week: A force of U-boats estimated to number between 25 and 30 . . . was subjected to such a relentless assault by surface escorts of the Royal Navy and by aircraft of the Coastal Command that the enemy was denied the opportunity to launch even one attack against a large and valuable eastbound convoy...
George the Courier. One such courier is my friend George, a Greek boy, who told me Crete's story. I will not even try to describe him for fear of giving him away to the Nazis. Intelligent and educated, George carried good news, orders, communiqués and bulletins from XXX to ZZZ. "We need arms," George tells me in his jerky, nervous way. "We need much more now if we are going to be useful in sabotage." George speaks solemnly of the great number of Cretans who were shot out-of-hand as hostages. "The Germans always pick...