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KUIBYSHEV, Russia--German panzer columns prowled along a 35-mile battle line semi-circling MOSCOW in vain search of a weak spot today, reportedly on orders from Adolf Hitler to seize the Soviet capital by Friday, 24th anniversary of the Red Revolution, war dispatches said...
...Fourth's artillery had moved up first to support the Panzer outfit. Then the Fourth's infantrymen scrambled out from bush and thicket, wheeled out their half-track (part caterpillar) troop carriers and headed for the front. For 25 to 30 miles they slogged along at 25 m.p.h...
...There was no trace of the eloquence of the Dunkirk battleground in his reports, only plain speaking with a touch of understatement. > "It was clear from the outset that the ascendancy in equipment which the enemy possessed played a great part in the operations." Germany concentrated at least ten Panzer divisions against the B.E.F., threw five of them at the British rear defenses, and the British command had no anti-tank guns for this area except those to be got by stripping the units at the front. General Gort's armored forces were only seven mechanized cavalry regiments with...
...break through with tanks, he suggested using three successive waves, behind which would pour infantry attackers to maintain their breach. This system calls for tight concentration of tanks into vast breaching units-e.g., the four Panzer Armies which have made the big breaks in Russia...
...Army trotted out a really remarkable array of ordnance. For the U.S., the British censor passed articles like that of William H. Stoneman of the Chicago Daily News and New York Post: "If it were not for the R.A.F. and the Home Guard, an invading German Army equipped with Panzer divisions and several divisions of infantry could roam England, spreading havoc for at least one week, and at the end of that time could still exist as a fighting unit...