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...Hedgehogs. The cities of Rzhev and Vyazma lie a-flank Moscow, some 125 miles to the northwest and southwest (see map). Connecting them with Smolensk, Vitebsk, the town of Velikie Luki and nearby Toropets to the northeast are railways and roads, now the military arteries of a fortified rectangle. Against the eastern edge of this rectangle, between Rzhev and Vyazma, and against the upper edge just west of Rzhev and on two sides of Velikie Luki, the Russians drove last week. Their purpose was to surround both places, to cut the railways and roads serving them and the whole German...
...Allied invasion of North Africa (see p. 34), if followed by an invasion of Italy, would allow bombers to blast German war plants now out of reach of Britain-based planes. The arc of the Alps could be bypassed by land troops without danger of an Italian flank attack along the historic Balkan route to Germany's back door. Along part of that route Yugoslav partisans last week had a new fighting front...
...They emerged like cats from everywhere, knives between their teeth. Flares did not frighten them. They broke into our right flank. Then the terrible thing happened that froze the blood of all of us. ... Men, women and children flung themselves into the attack...
...next offensive step would logically be an assault in force on Buin, at the southern extremity of Bougainville Island. That is the point from which Jap task forces have hopped for Guadalcanal. On the way Rekata Bay, a Jap naval air base, would have to be eliminated on the flank. After that, Rabaul-the heart of the Japanese system in the lower Pacific...
...Japs' mighty convoy sped on. Their naval forces bore down from the north; transports, assembled at Buin and Rabaul, sailed on the right flank...