Word: stalingraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Look and see what is taking place at the fronts. The defeats of the last seven months are unparalleled in the history of Germany-Stalingrad, the Don, the Caucasus, Libya and Tunisia...
...Returning from Stalingrad, where he saw immense junk piles of wrecked Nazi planes and tanks, the hard-bitten U.S. Ambassador, Admiral William H. Standley, said: "I can now believe almost any [Red] claims...
...route to Stalingrad, a soldier dropped his rifle from the moving train. Afraid of what was coming to him, he jumped off the train, picked up the rifle, chased the train three miles to a station. When he heard of this, Gurtiev beamed...
Miles to the west of Stalingrad's bloody battleground, Rokossovsky and his colleagues fought this week toward the fruition of the great Red Army's war. From Ladoga to the U of the Dnieper, the front was aflame and moving. The Russian maiden's light burned bright. And Rokossovsky knew how to lead the maiden's soldier through Hell and the Wehrmacht...
...days last fall, wiry, greying Colonel Gurtiev held the "Barricades" factory in Stalingrad. His division repulsed 117 tank and infantry attacks. It withstood 80 hours of steady pounding by German artillery. FT a total of 320 hours the Luftwaffe bombed it. Watching the flames shrouding 'the tortured factory, anxious men elsewhere in Stalingrad said: "Stepan Gurtiev, that's the man for you." Of his 50 years, Gurtiev had spent 28 in the army. His men loved him, but feared him too, for "Tovarish Commander" tolerated no flaws in training, discipline or valor...