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...last week the Russians' multiple winter drives, begun last November as a series of local counteroffensives, had developed into one of the great offensives of history.* From Leningrad to the Black Sea, along a 1,500-mile front (see map), the Red Army was staging one operation with one purpose: to break the German hold upon Russia at every point where the Wehrmacht had anchored its lines, then to smash into and destroy the rear systems of communication and supply, without which the Germans cannot recover in the spring...
...impossible to burn the place over or carry anything away. Jap corpses still inhabit the pillboxes (which the Australian tanks crushed), and sometimes the rain washes them into view. Humorous, bird-like Surgeon John Lambert of the fifth portable had a dream the other night: he found a Japanese map showing the whole Buna area under water, and he remembers saying, "Gee, the Japs make much better maps than...
...five inches above an envelope, the latter's fluorescent surface steps up the short ultraviolet waves enough to make them visible, not enough to destroy eye adaptation. The illumination, unlike that of an ordinary dim light, is confined to the reading surface, will light a 36-sq-in. map or photograph inside the envelope, but cannot be seen by an attacking plane...
...victory was not won, and the Russians in their second winter of war knew it better than most. The Germans at Stalingrad were surrounded (see map), but they were not yet defeated. What the Red Army had won, but had yet to exploit, were positions and advantages which may eventually doom the Wehrmacht. Said Moscow Author Ilya Ehrenburg, preparing the Russian people for greater struggles...
...Georgia group of islands (see map, p. 28) appeared last week to be the Japs' newest hope as a spot from which either to reinforce Guadalcanal or to delay an eventual U.S. attack on Rabaul. For either purpose, the group is ideally suited -a halfway station between Bougainville and Guadalcanal...