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...June 27 Churchill and Roosevelt said in Washington: The coming operations, which were discussed in detail at our Washington conferences between ourselves and our respective military advisers, will divert German strength from the attack in Russia...
...than 60 divisions (about 800,000 men), including 30 armored brigades, in four groups along his winding, 2,100-mile border. Other estimates were that he had about half as many men; 1,200 to 1,500 planes. Whatever his force, whatever the strength that he has had to divert to the Hitler front, he must disperse his Asian armies to meet their peculiarly difficult problem of defense...
...from won, he asserted that Britain and America will have to take the war more seriously. "The strain on the Russian line is tremendous; the need for a second front is daily growing more acute. To date, the guerrilla armies of Jugoslavia are doing more to divert the military strength of the Axis than the United States and Britain...
...forces defending the capital to keep them from relieving Timoshenko. Then, on the Kalinin front northwest of Moscow, the Germans began still another drive. It was geared for speed: fleets of Luftwaffe transports swarmed into rear-line fields to supply the mobile Nazi forces. This served immediately to divert the Red Army from the crucial south; it was also a necessary preliminary to any attempt to encircle and conquer Moscow itself...
...Coming operations . . . will divert German strength from the attack on Russia...