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...Germans were trying to advance in two directions through the Caucasus. One force, striking toward Grozny and the Caspian, had been stalled for the past two months on the Terek River, which German broadcasts described as "the accursed stream where so much German blood has already been shed." Another spearhead had moved from captured Novorossiisk toward the great oil port of Batum. It did not get far before the Russians counterattacked...
China's news seemed to be all bad. In the eastern theater, in Chekiang Province, where the Japanese Army wants to seize airfield's within reach of Japan and Formosa, Japanese reinforcements poured in from east, north and southeast, forming a huge, closing maw. A new spearhead pushed north from the Canton area. China's Chekiang-Kiangsi and Hankow-Canton railroads were eaten up mile by hard-fought mile. Yet Chiang was optimistic...
...thinking they were being bombed) when the attacking ships retired. Not a plane was lost, not a rating injured, the British reported, in an action with a dual purpose: 1) to cripple Axis bases from which attacks can be launched on British convoys; 2) to smash one spearhead of a momentarily expected Axis thrust toward Suez and the oil fields of the Caucasus and Iraq...
...years, Daladier said, the French High Command had distrusted tank warfare, had scorned the theory of General Charles de Gaulle that tanks should be used as the spearhead of attack, rather than as isolated units accompanying infantry advances. "But our leaders did not believe in them," Daladier told the court. "They were placed behind our troops...
...Report. The announcement of great new gains did not come. Instead a communique announced a full-scale attack on the central front, a push by tank squadrons and massed infantry, sharp aerial fighting. In the first day, the communique said, the Russian spearhead had reached to within 50 miles of the German winter headquarters at Smolensk...