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...seemed to be making some belated efforts to evacuate southward; Red pilots reported bombing southbound troop trains. But the railroads were lost now. At Jelgava, the Russians were only 25 miles from the sea. The Germans were thus caught in two pockets-one between Riga and the Gulf of Finland, the other between Riga and East Prussia...
...north, Marshal Govorov woke up the sector above Lake Peipus with an attack which overran Narva, which the Germans had held since Govorov drove them back from Leningrad. This action extended the active front to a reach of 800 miles from the Carpathians to the Gulf of Finland. The stretch had been excruciating for the Germans. It was possible that the Soviet high command had not originally intended to stretch it so fast, to keep so much of it in motion at one time, but-always quick to exploit an unexpected weakness-had been encouraged...
Other TIME subscribers are fighting yellow fever in Uganda, mining tin in Bolivia, teaching inside China. One is a customs inspector at Dar-es-Salaam; another is the President of Finland...
...lessons of Spain and Finland had been learned. Soviet design was sharpened up, and the factories began a change over to new types. In the midst of this process, Hitler struck...
...time the unfriendly warm weather returned, Lend-Lease planes were beginning to arrive from the U.S. and England. But from northern Norway and Finland, the Luftwaffe was taking terrific toll of the Allied convoys plying to Murmansk. Much Lend-Lease shipping for Russia had to be rerouted the dismally long way around to the Persian Gulf. The Russians hung on. They dismantled the aircraft factories which lay in the path of the Wehrmacht, moved them far to the rear and reassembled them there...