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...fiercest battles were fought near Krivoi Rog, in the heart of the Dnieper bend. This devastated iron center also protected a German escape corridor across the southern Ukraine. The capture of Krivoi Rog would culminate the lower Dnieper campaign, enabling the Red flood to roll southward, cut off perhaps a score of German divisions...
...bombers blasted German defenses. Into the gap poured Russian infantrymen and tanks, until then hidden in gullies and ravines. By the end of the second day, the forces of bald, hard-driving General Ivan Konev had opened a breach 28 miles wide, 16 miles deep, soon pushed the wedge southward at a fast pace. By this week, his army had driven some 70 miles into the bulge, was pounding on the gates of Krivoi Rog, an important rail and iron center. Outflanked, the German troops in Dniepropetrovsk abandoned the great city, with its wrecked power plants and factories...
After that the Waldensians spread southward to the rugged Abruzzi and to the great olive-and vine-growing sections of southern Italy and Sicily. They have also spread to Argentina and Uruguay, where they form the fifth district of the Waldensian Church. In the U.S. Waldensian Italians usually become Presbyterians...
...tank named Lulubelle is isolated during Rommel's African heyday. Under Humphrey Bogart's command, it staggers southward through sand and heat. Fuel and water run short. The crew picks up first a mixed batch of English and Empire men, later a Sudanese soldier (Rex Ingram) and his Italian prisoner (J. Carrol Naish), finally an arrogant young Nazi ace (Kurt Krueger). Half dead with thirst, this military mixed grill at last reaches an abandoned well, finds a choked dribble of water. There, as they die off one by one, the Allied men manage through a series of improbable...
Victories. Bryansk and Novorossiisk were only two of a thousand victories, large and small, scored during the past week. From Velikie Luki southward, nine Red Army groups totaling perhaps 3,000,000 men were surging forward, crushing enemy "hedgehogs," sending the foe reeling back. Last week these armies...