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Time is defeating the Germans. Old victories and old defeats are defeating the Germans: the Red Army's stands, retreats and counterattacks; the Wehrmacht's losses at Smolensk, Rzhev and Moscow; the men and weapons spent, the weeks forever lost at Sevastopol; the spaces of the Ukraine, the Kuban plains and the upper Caucasus, conquered but nonetheless expensive to their conquerors; and, finally, the pit of Stalingrad. No one of these great battles, sieges or marches in the greatest campaign of history exhausted or defeated the German Army. But in the aggregate they saved Russia and they saved...
...night last week Moscow's foreign correspondents attended a preview of what may be the finest documentary war film ever made. Entitled June 13th, the picture is a 70-minute record of one day's land, sea and air battles from the Baltic to Sevastopol, plus superb shots of activities behind the Russian front. Lacking propaganda-as-such, June 13th may prove to be the most convincing report to date of the terrible determination of the Russian fight. To get scenes the government sent out 160 cameramen. Twenty lost their lives...
...opening scenes of June 13th show shiny, steel-helmeted troops marching in the dawn's early light through the streets of Moscow. Cameras on balloons record their morning descent. Then follows the terrible shelling of Sevastopol. Five, six-story buildings tumble like childrens' block houses. Guerrillas, armed with makeshift guns supplied by the local blacksmith, recapture a village. Tank battle scenes were made through gun slits in the front Russian tanks. After disabling Nazi tanks with shells, machine gunners in a Soviet tank rake Germans trying to escape into the woods. One is hit just as he emerges...
Sorrow for Stalingrad tempered Russia's somber pride in Leningrad. The tsar-made city on the Baltic, entering its second year of siege, presented to Russia and the world an epic of agony and heroism which in its duration and sustained intensity exceeded even the siege of Sevastopol...
...Army, outnumbered in both planes and tanks, put its reliance on artillery, in the defense-in-depth which Russia's soldiers perfected while they were losing Sevastopol and Rostov. Well behind the lines were medium heavy guns, in the middle of the city medium artillery, in the front ranks light artillery, anti-tank guns, machine-gun nests. All batteries were defended by tommy gunners, and at key points throughout the city small, speedy mobile units were in action rushing to meet each newly threatened advance. Medium artillery attempted to smash advancing tank columns before they deployed in battle formation...