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Under Rokossovsky, Bagramian, the young Chernyakhovsky (TIME, July 3) and Colonel General Georg Zakharov, a central-front newcomer who won his spurs in the Crimea, the Russians had 80 to 100 divisions, by German count, concentrated on a front of 200 miles...
...lull was no lullaby for the nerve-racked Germans. Outside the Crimea, there had been no major Soviet offensive anywhere for six weeks. Swarming like ants all over their hundreds of thousands of square miles of retaken ground, the Reds multiplied and strengthened their supply lines, built new installations, brought up to the front great masses of guns, tanks, ammunition, food, fuel...
General Tolbukhin's armies, which had finished "cleaning" the Crimea last month, were now reported being shifted to the central front.* Also available as a reserve was General Andrei Yeremenko's army, which helped to capture the Crimea. Both these armies were a considerable strengthening factor for the Russians who have had untold millions of casualties...
Last year Grandfather Golovaty gave 100,000 rubles for a fighter plane, which his Saratov neighbor, Guards Major Yeremin, had flown at Stalingrad, Rostov, Taganrog, Melitopol and in the Crimea. Now, wrote the beekeeper, the plane was "quite worn down." Meanwhile, Grandfather Golovaty's bees had produced much honey, earned a good bounty, helped stock up Moscow's long-depleted food stores (see cut). They could afford to give another 100,000 rubles for a new plane. And might Grandfather Golovaty, personally, present the gift to Major Yeremin...
Last week, after 72 hours of such pounding, Sevastopol fell. Into Russian hands fell a vast booty, from shoe polish to crated bombers. Nearly 25,000 more prisoners went behind the barbed wire, to join 37,000 taken elsewhere in the Crimea (some 50,000 others were killed). In the harbor, Red engineers got to work. Soon...