Word: sevastopols
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...their tools and streamed westward to take up guns with the embattled Red Army. Bunker by bunker, from every concrete pillbox and every swallow's nest hollowed nastily from the earth, the Russians were putting up a defense of Stalingrad that would rank at least with those of Sevastopol and Rostov. Unquenchable in their hearts was the hope that in the end it would rank with Leningrad and Moscow-prizes that once were within the enemy's grasp, but never taken...
...Moscow knew there was a war. Sunburned survivors of Sevastopol limped through the streets. Every few hours Moscow heard the clump clump clump of marching feet. Often the marchers were new recruits-old men, young men, women-getting their initial training. Sometimes they were labor battalions. One afternoon there was the groan of airplane motors overhead and 50 huge black bombers sped low over the city, heading north. Unlike London, free from the pressure of bombing raids, and the U.S., stewing about inflation, a sense of grim reality hung over the heart of Russia...
...Star pieces (shown in Nazi films) are two immense mortars: the Krupp-built "Thor," a 42-cm. (about 17-in.) monster, bigger than the biggest U.S. battleship gun; and a 61.5-cm. supermonster, mounted on a four-track rail truck. These presumably were the weapons which helped to pulverize Sevastopol. They were far too big for use on quickly shifting fronts such as the Don. But, if Rostov and Stalingrad fell under siege, the Russians would probably feel their weight again...
After their mauling before Sevastopol, Manstein's troops probably had to rest and refit, but the Luftwaffe air fleet could fly immediately to the Kursk-Kharkov fronts. Fritz Erich von Manstein had earned his quick promotion to Field Marshal...
Berlin's dry boasts, Moscow's strained eulogies were empty of words for the defenders of Sevastopol. For them, the dead spoke well enough...