Word: mud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terrain from Chernigov to Kiev is marshy; that from Kremenchug is muddy. How much would marsh and mud help the Russians, hinder the Nazis...
...Mud up North. On the Leningrad Front the Germans pressed hard, in a hurry clean things up before mud cluttered things up. In that sector the worst rains probably over, but the days were getting so short, the sun's rays were beginning to slant so flat that soon, perhaps within a fortnight, what little new did fall would never dry. Mud would get deeper, softer, crueler...
...Germans would have to accomplish their aim either before, or in spite of, mud. Last week it appeared that the aim might not be to attack Leningrad, street by street, but to lay winter siege...
...Mud down South. The Ukraine, which usually has its heaviest rains in June, this summer had unseasonable torrents in August. Mud was last week still a hindrance almost as great as the enemy. Vehicles bogged hub-deep (see cut}. Messagero's war correspondent wrote: "The soldiers say: We are caught in the chocolate." But long, mild, dry days are soon due on this front. And here the winter comes late. The Germans, apparently feeling that they had plenty of time to break through to the Caucasus and the Caspian Sea, last week went to work establishing bridge heads...
...display were 36 75s, converted to anti-tank fire and mounted in armored trucks with tractor treads which could take them nearly anywhere a tank could go (see cut). On tiny "jeeps" and swamp buggies-jeeps with enormous wheels and bus-size tires for mushing through mud and snow-were 18 ordinary anti-tank guns...