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...outcome may be the same if the Red Army destroys the German Army or merely drives it back. If the Ukraine can be retaken, if the battle line can be shoved back into Poland-somewhere along the way, the German will to resist is almost certain to break...
Small reward for this heroic nation then, to deprive her not only of the promised Dodecanese (taken by Italy from the old Turkish Empire in 1912; given to Greece in 1919, and retaken by Italy in 1922 for no reason and vaguely promised ever since), but also Greek-inhabited Western Thrace which has been incorporated with Greece since 1919! And these territories are to be taken from a nation that is indisputably on our side and given to the canny Turks, still waiting to make sure who is going...
Captain Ludwig Sertorius, military commentator for the German Transocean News Service, said: "The German counteroffensive has shifted . . . in harmony with the general trend of fighting into the northern direction." Having retaken Kharkov, having consolidated positions on the western bank of the Donets, the German efforts crept to the Belgorod Sector, 45 miles north of Kharkov, to the Kursk sector, 120 miles north, to the Bryansk sector, 250 miles northwest of Kharkov. Smolensk is 145 miles northwest of Bryansk...
...Command this week announced a full-scale offensive in the north, below Leningrad. Led by Marshal Semion Timoshenko, the Russians-taking full advantage of the remaining weeks of winter-were attacking the entire German 16th Army near Lake Ilmen. Moscow said that over 300 towns and settlements had been retaken, that 11,000 Germans were killed or captured. Success would mean that the Germans would be outflanked on the approaches of Leningrad. Then, especially if the Finns managed to make peace the whole Nazi position in the north would be in peril...
...Transport planes have their definite limitations. Because high octane gas is scarce in China, freight planes have to carry with them a round trip supply, which necessarily cuts down on their pay load. Until Burma is recaptured, no real amount can be flown in," he revealed. "Once Burma is retaken, we will resume work on the railroad from Lashio north into China. This will take the place of the Burma road which had never been satisfactory...