Word: panzers
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Second Class. Inside such fortifications small units held up whole regiments for days. Not only could the enemy cut down on manpower but on first-class manpower. German prisoners taken in the Monte Samucre sector were not top material for Panzer Grenadiers. They did not have to be. Cracked a U.S. officer: "All they had to do was sit in those damn pillboxes and pull a trigger...
They have cleared the Caucasus, reoccupied almost half of the Ukraine, imperiled the Crimea, reached the borders of White Russia. They have bled the Wehrmacht, destroyed the bulk of its Panzer...
...planes they could. When, on the seventh day, the British arrived to take the great port of Taranto, the Germans had deserted it to confused, volubly embarrassed Italians. As the British marched eastward to Brindisi on the Adriatic, they met only the rear guard of a retreating German Panzer division...
...command of the Stalingrad relief campaign. Rokossovsky's forces-tanks, infantry, artillery, aircraft and cavalry-crossed the Don to form a ring around Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus' 22 divisions, anticipated the point of a German counterattack, and in savage and protracted battle defeated the powerful Panzer army of Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein. It was Rokossovsky who signed the demand for capitulation sent to Paulus, which was rejected and which led to the final destruction of Hitler's Stalingrad army. It was the greatest single victory yet won by the Red Army. The strategy...
Moscow said that the Germans used six panzer divisions (200 tanks each), a motorized division, and seven infantry divisions in the opening attacks from Orel; five regular tank divisions, four smaller armored divisions (150 tanks each), and seven infantry divisions in the attacks from Belgorod-where the Russians made their only admissions of sustained German gains. In an aside to the U.S. and Britain, Moscow also said that the Germans had transferred, two bomber fleets and one night-fighter fleet from Western Europe...