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Since the Red offensive began in the Kursk-Belgorod sector on July 12, the Russians have rolled forward 50 to 200 mi...
along a 700-mi. front, recaptured 95,000 sq. mi. of Russian earth (see map). They have breached two powerful defense walls...
...last major defense line available to the Wehrmacht in Russia. Once Hitler had his headquarters in this ancient walled city, and from here the Wehrmacht rumbled into its futile attack on Moscow in the winter of 1941. To take it, the Russians had to pierce a 40-mi. belt of defenses they described as "the strongest on the Eastern front." The fall of Smolensk turned the left wing of the German Dnieper line, marked a victory as important as that at Stalingrad...
...Africa, and some of its units had been tested in Sicily. It had received its final temper in seven days of shock and fire at Salerno. The Fifth had been organized in North Africa. As its Commander in Chief, Mark Clark had military jurisdiction over 225,000 sq. mi. of North African soil. He established headquarters in the vacated Ècole des Jeunes Filles at Oujda, in French Morocco, a town of 35,000 (less than half of whom are Europeans). Around Jay a sparsely-settled, varied terrain-mountain, desert, plain and seacoast-an excellent practice ground...
...sent Federal officers to take control from the states' Governors, that would be roughly equivalent to what happened in Brazil last week. "In the interests of national defense" (and possibly for other reasons), Brazil's President Getulio Vargas seized direct control of some 200,000 sq. mi. along the country's borders...