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...Nazis opened a new attack with an air bombardment. All of the Red Barricade plant, "a spectacle of utter chaos," was captured, said a German communiqué. The Spartakovka settlement near by, where factory workers had dwelt, also fell to the Germans. The Dzerzhinsky factory was plastered with tons of bombs. As the fighting surged into new parts of northern Stalingrad, the section of railway yards, oil tanks and huge warehouses, the Germans tried to mushroom north & south from captured positions. Russian flank attacks halted them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Fight for Factories | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

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