Word: kerrs
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Bury the Dead. Last week, after a visit with other correspondents to the Stalingrad area, the New York Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr gave the outer world its clearest view yet of what hit the Germans...
Below Stalingrad Kerr found 44-year-old, stocky Lieut. General Rodion Yakovlievich Malinovsky, a onetime Czarist soldier who fought beside a U.S. division in France during World War I. Kerr asked General Malinovsky to explain the Red Army's power...
General Malinovsky took no stock in reports outside Russia that the Germans had invited disaster by withdrawing as many as 40 divisions to defend the Mediterranean. On the contrary, he said, new German tank and infantry divisions had recently appeared in Russia. From others Correspondent Kerr learned that, although the Germans had 26 armored divisions in Russia last November, 14 had been destroyed, encircled or so badly cut up that they were no longer effective. The rest were no match for the Red Army's strengthened and reorganized tank forces, nor for its artillery and infantry...
...Kalmuck steppes, below Stalingrad, the correspondents saw hundreds of ruined German tanks, munitions dumps captured intact, many abandoned guns. At Kotelnikov, where the Germans had failed in their chief attempt to break through and save their Stalingrad army, Correspondent Kerr traced the history of Axis disaster. In a park which the Germans had made a cemetery when Kotelnikov was securely theirs, the German graves lay between neat rows of bricks, and wooden crosses, bore the name, birth date and rank of each soldier. Then there were shallow graves, marked rudely and in haste. On the battlefields outside the town...
Except for Moore, Democrats held the G.O.P. revolt in check. They squeezed in New Dealish Robert S. Kerr as Governor by 15,000 votes, elected seven of Oklahoma's eight Congressmen. Because Republicans underestimated their own strength, dozens of local offices went to the Democrats by default...