Word: kursk
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...blow is aimed in two directions-at Kursk from the area south of Orel, and from the Belgorod direction northward, also in the direction of Kursk. . . . It is sufficient to glance at the map to understand the operative plan of the German command. It envisaged the encirclement and annihilation of our troops along the arc of the Kursk salient...
...punch in the jaw, the crooks from Hitler's headquarters now put their tail between their legs and begin to yell that "allegedly it is not they, the Germans, who conduct the offensive, but the Soviet troops, and that consequently it was not their attempt to capture Kursk that failed in the first three days of heavy battles, but the attempt of our troops to break through the German defenses. ... It is too early to formulate a final conclusion...
...hour battle above the Russian rail center of Kursk, 80 mi. south of Orel, Russian fighters fought a 500-German-plane armada to a standstill, forcing the Luftwaffe to dump its bombs at random. German losses to Russian anti-aircraft fire and fighter planes were 162 planes; Russian plane losses...
...along the 1,500-mile front, artillery unlimbered. Moscow claimed 1,894 German planes destroyed in four weeks of intensive air battles. Each night some 200 Russian heavy bombers plastered Nazi communication centers. Counterattacking Germans in the Kuban were beaten back in fierce but local encounters. The Luftwaffe raided Kursk, lost 65 planes. Russia's Black Sea Fleet sank six bargeloads of Germans near Kerch...
...Transocean News Service, said: "The German counteroffensive has shifted . . . in harmony with the general trend of fighting into the northern direction." Having retaken Kharkov, having consolidated positions on the western bank of the Donets, the German efforts crept to the Belgorod Sector, 45 miles north of Kharkov, to the Kursk sector, 120 miles north, to the Bryansk sector, 250 miles northwest of Kharkov. Smolensk is 145 miles northwest of Bryansk...