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...these plays, the Red Army's twin goals were the Dnieper and the ancient city of Kiev, the Wehrmacht's most important base in the Ukraine. But in seeking them, the Red Command never lost sight of its old and tested strategy of myasoroobka-the meat-grinder, which by steady pounding and by enveloping maneuvers has been crushing the Wehrmacht's bone...
...Bone-Grinder. Orel was for the Germans, like Stalingrad, a Knochenmühle (bone-grinder). A Nazi war correspondent wired the Völkischer Beobachter: "Today's setting sun has seen more soldiers dying than soldiers sleeping. For every single minute during the entire day all of us, from the last private to the highest staff officer, have been conscious of the monstrous Russian superiority. Our battalions had to be spread out very thin to meet the Russian attacks everywhere. Last night we were forced to retreat hastily. .. . All we could take with us were a few artillery pieces...
...living room last week, grey-haired Pa John Harrington, 68, worked long hours at a grinder, grinned when the sparks flew, sometimes muttered: "I have more fun than a kid in this place." Buxom Ma Harrington, 58, wearing a house dress tucked into overalls, operated a lathe. Twins Richard and Russell, 34, wangled new orders, worked at machines, swept out the place at night, often were on the job 16 hours out of 24. Mrs. Richard kept books. Mrs. Russell did all the cooking...
...town of Balaklava, where the Light Brigade's 600 rode against the Russian batteries. Last week many times 600 Nazis died near Balaklava, but the Russians called their defensive maze of gunpits and tank traps nothing so poetic as "the valley of death." They called it "the meat grinder." Jaws of the grinder were two stony heights, Fediukhiny to the south and Mekenzevy to the east. Guns emplaced on these slopes commanded all the land approaches to Sevastopol. Below them, and between them and the city, was an unbroken mass of emplacements, trenches and shelters dug into the soft...
...Only the cold communiqués from Berlin, the warmer rhapsodies to valor from Moscow, indicated a slow Nazi ad vance. This week, on the eve of Hitler's second year in Russia, the question at Sevastopol was how much Nazi meat it would take to choke the grinder...