Word: ladoga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work of making munitions, erecting barricades and drilling the city's defenders never stops. The film has vivid shots of the lifeline that made Leningrad's resistance possible: the path across frozen Lake Ladoga, where railroad trains run on temporary tracks and trucks travel until late in the spring across the rotten ice. The most eloquent shots are those of the people: in Leningrad's streets death is so commonplace that no one turns to look at a small boy dragging a sled with a coffin...
...Leningrad was not the longest in history,* but it was far & away the longest in World War II. The Nazis termed Leningrad "a doomed city" on Aug. 21, 1941, when Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb captured the fortress of Schlüsselburg on the southern tip of Lake Ladoga, thus completing a 40-mile semicircular chain south of the city. The Finns pressed down the Karelian Isthmus from the north, leaving the Russians only Lake Ladoga as a link with the rest of the Soviet Union...
...thin line of communication across Lake Ladoga the city almost certainly would have fallen. In the summer tugs, fishing boats and other vessels ran the gantlet of German bombers to bring food, munitions and raw materials to the city, to take wounded, women & children and war products out. One of the Soviet Union's biggest aluminum plants functioned continually during the siege. In the winter communications were maintained by road and rail across Lake Ladoga...
...German dispatches admitted that the Russians had recaptured Schlusselburg, south of Leningrad on Lake Ladoga, breaking the Axis ring around Leningrad after a year of siege...
...covered fighting in Finland all the way from 250 miles north of the Arctic Circle to the great battles on the ice at Lake Ladoga 600 miles to the south. He was bombed by the Nazis in Norway until his teeth chattered-sizzled with the Aussies in the sands of Libya-flew with British bombers from Greek fields when they raided the Italians at Brindisi. After that he covered the Greek campaign from the fighting in the Albanian mountains to the tragic evacuation of the Australians and the British from the Greek ports. Hell-bent for more...