Word: pavlograd
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...Recaptured 3,800 towns and villages, including the vital railroad centers of Pavlograd, Krasnograd and Lozovaya...
...disregarded the fact that it is the business of generalship never to be out-concentrated. The place of attack made the most of the Russian transport difficulties. The Russians, though unable to use Germans' narrower rail lines, had advanced just beyond three important rail junctions, Krasnograd, Lozovaya and Pavlograd, and the Germans recovered them early in the counter-drive...
German newspapers barked last week that the Russians saddled dogs with dynamite and sicked them on German tanks. The Germans growled that they found 27,000 demolition-trained dogs in kennels near Pavlograd; altogether the Russians were supposed to have trained 100,000 dogs by burdening them with sandbags and teaching them to run in front of tanks. "But not a single Panzer was destroyed by the dogs," yipped the Germans...
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