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...probable that the Germans would throw their whole strength into the Crimea, although it is only 22 miles across the Kerch Straits from the oil-soaked Caucasus. To risk everything in a game of leapfrog from Crimea to the Caucasus would mean leaving their left flank open to the wiliest of the Russian generals, Marshal Semion Timoshenko...
...south "is the logical place for Hitler to attack because he needs the oil in the Caucasus, and because from there he will be able to threaten the British flank." His plans for an early attack were probably thwarted, Karpovich said, by climate conditions which do not differ so radically in the south from the north as most people think...
Besieged since Aug. 8, Leningrad is still ringed some 30 miles away by Nazi guns. Capture of Leningrad would 1) isolate the Kronstadt naval base, opening the Baltic as a German supply line to the northern front; 2) clear direct communications to Finland; 3) penetrate the Russian right flank, making the menace to Moscow even graver than last year's; 4) prepare for supplying and manning a major offensive to cut Russia's vital, northern supply line via Murmansk...
...struck in an unexpected quarter. Anticipated next summer and autumn were lightning, cigaret and even faggot-set fires in the vast tinderbox of the Northwest, which is as vulnerable to incendiaries as Japan's papery cities. But the late April-early May fires in the East were a flank attack...
...breakthrough on the Manila Bay side of the peninsula he threw a corps in desperate counterattack. It was too much. The glassy-eyed soldiers went forward like men in a dream, so exhausted that many of them could hardly lift their feet, and the Jap mowed them down. The flank folded...