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Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, the German commander in south Russia, would have esteemed Vassily Kochetkov, a junior lieutenant of the Red Army. Bock commanded 1,000,000 or more men, fighting for Stalingrad, the Volga and the Caucasus. Junior Lieut. Kochetkov commanded 16 Red Guardsmen holding a hillock before Stalingrad...
...dawn twelve of Bock's tanks climbed the hillock toward the swallow's nest of trenches and light fortifications where Kochetkov and his men lay. The Guardsmen had only rifles and hand grenades. Kochetkov was wounded. His Guardsmen spoke briefly to him, and he to them. Four of them fastened grenades to their thick leather belts. Each of the four chose a tank, ran down the hill, and dived headlong. Eight tanks were left. Six of the eight tanks turned and retreated. The two others crawled on toward the Guardsmen's nest. By then only Kochetkov...
...each sector it was a battle for one hillock, one valley, then another and another. These separate battles made, in their whole, a struggle which may rank with Tours, Waterloo and the First Battle of the Marne among the conflicts that shape the world. The battle for Stalingrad will certainly stand among the great feats of arms; the very fact that the Germans' Marshal Fedor von Bock was able to keep 500,000 or more men in battle, so far from their main bases, at the fighting end of fantastically inadequate transport routes, placed him with the masters...
Last week golf's bigwigs announced the establishment of a Hall of Fame. Patterned after baseball's Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, N.Y., golf's shrine will stand on a hillock overlooking the Augusta National Golf course at Augusta, Ga. First foursome to be immortalized in bronze: Bobby Jones, Francis Ouimet (pronounced we met), Walter Hagen, Gene Sarazen...
...French, apparently did not forget to touch off the charges. Greece's Metaxas Line-pillboxes, barbed wire, trenches-was ironically strongest opposite neutral Bulgaria; nevertheless it offered barriers. The first line ran from Fiorina to the sea. The Greeks furthermore diverted streams on to roads, used every hillock and rock for sniping. Italian Alpinists are among the best mountain troops in Europe; but the Greek evzones-picturesque, wiry men in white jackets and kilts, slippers with turned-up toes and pompons, and any old sort of rifle-are tough and brave...