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Peril in the North. The Soviet High 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...
...Colonel General Andrei Ivanovich Yeremenko, 50. Stocky, brown-haired, he was born in the Ukraine, left a farm to join the Czarist army in 1913. After the peace he organized guerrilla bands to fight the Germans in the Ukraine, served during the Civil War as a cavalry officer under Semion Budenny. When the Germans invaded Russia, Yeremenko assumed command of an army west of Moscow, played a leading role in the defense of the capital, shifted to Stalingrad when its fall seemed imminent. In 19 months of war he has been wounded seven times. His wife and youngest son were...
Commanders who failed have been relieved or shot. The Army's own Red Star has repeatedly complained that the Germans still outgeneraled the Russians. Last week Moscow announced that one of its famous generals-Marshal Semion Timoshenko (TIME, July 22), commander on the southern front when the Germans broke through and drove to Stalingrad-had been replaced...
...second week of their culminating blow - and the tenth of Marshal Semion Timoshenko's long effort to break into the Don elbow and relieve Stalingrad from the German rear - the Russians won the positions from which they must now fight for the victory. They cleaned the Germans from a great, thinly defended patch, 50 to 100 miles deep, within the Don bend and west of the corridor between the Don and the Volga. They forced the Germans to establish a defense line on the Don's eastern bank, with their backs to Stalingrad, facing the Russians...
...first three days of the Russian advances, the Red Army's gains were both impressive and promising. Marshal Semion Timoshenko's troops, attacking northwest and southwest of Stalingrad, broke through in two places and drove 50 miles to the western banks of the Don, and then 90 miles beyond. The Russians routed half a dozen German divisions, captured hundreds of artillery pieces, killed some 26,000 Germans and captured 24,000 others...