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Russia. Between the Pripet Marshes and Leningrad, the Red Army smashed into the enemy in a new offensive, moved 19 miles on a 50-mile front in five days. At Kherson, 640 miles to the south, it drove the enemy from his bridgehead on the Dnieper's south bank. Question for Germans: Where would the big blow fall...
...Kherson, 640 miles to the south, the Germans withdrew from their bridgehead on the south bank of the frozen Dnieper...
Other echoes rumbled all along the front. In the Dnieper bulge, great tank battles flared up and died down of sheer exhaustion. In the windswept plain west of Kiev, in the woods north of the frozen Pripet Marshes, the front stirred, thundered, quieted. Fearfully, Germans spoke of Russian troops massed thickly along the 300-mile front south of Leningrad...
...breakdown at Khersoi would throw the Germans back to the Bug River, further imperil the troops still entrenched within the Dnieper bend. It looked like the beginning of a hard winter for Germans...
...needed than the elements. A strong factor in the stalemate was the stubborn and skilled German resistance. Last week, Moscow's press found it necessary to warn exuberant optimists that the Wehrmacht was still a tremendously powerful force. It still held a sizable portion of the lower Dnieper's right bank. It was still able-and willing-to throw fresh men and tanks into the battle to hold or gain an important point...