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...vast numbers of guns could be used -if cannon could be placed hub to hub -what power could break through? And if the cannon, besides spreading their fire over an area, could hit small, individual targets one after another, what system of defenses could survive? Thus, out of the body of Russian tradition, out of the mass of ideas, doubts and speculations, emerged Voronov's tactic of Massed Fire & Individual Targets...
Last week Joseph Stalin confirmed what Berlin had unhappily admitted two days earlier: the fall of Równe (Rovno) and Luck (Lutsk), an 85-mile thrust into old Poland. Vatutin had bypassed the German-held roads, sent his men into the hub-deep mud of swamps and forests. Outflanked, the Germans retreated...
...beyond the Russian frontier. By week's end a swift-moving (150 miles in a fortnight) column of General Nikolai Vatutin's First Ukrainian Army stood almost at the city's gates. In a region of few roads, many forests and lakes, Sarny is a traffic hub. Through it passes a main north-south railway; without it, the Wehrmacht's forces in Poland would...
...mountains was aimed at railroad lines. These attacks were evidently keyed in with air raids by Allied Mitchell bombers from Italy. The U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, newly based in Italy, struck heavy blows at Pola, big supply center for Nazi forces in Yugoslavia (and at Sofia, Balkan communications hub.) Tito and Allied commanders were in communication; it was no longer a secret that some supply vessels and many liaison parties shuttled between Italy and Partisan-held points on the coast...
...Kwajalein, world's largest atoll, an 80-mile string of islets, is the hub of the Marshall fortifications. It has a major airfield (on Roi Island), a seaplane anchorage, submarine facilities. In its tremendous lagoon, raiding U.S. planes (TIME, Dec. 20), have caught cruisers, carriers, seagoing merchantmen and many varieties of inter-island craft...