Word: stalingraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moscow dispatches noted two significant facts: 1) as of last week, the Germans held two positions on the Volga-the chief aim of their drive for Stalingrad; 2) of the 22 Axis divisions caught in and near the city, 20 were German divisions; only two were Rumanian...
...southern offensive, were Rumanian and Italian. At some points of the Russians' first advances, satellite troops outnumbered the Germans 5-to-2. This probably explained the bag of 137,650 prisoners-the first such claims ever made by the Red Army. Cracking the 20 all-German divisions at Stalingrad will be a tougher task...
...chill and windy Kalmuck steppes south of Stalingrad, where the Russians had narrowly repulsed a German counteroffensive, the Red Army still advanced last week. It drove down the Stalingrad-Caucasus railway, took the Germans' strong defense-point at Kotelnikov, and rolled on southward. The Russians said that these operations, like those on the Middle Don and northwest of Stalingrad, were part of the great plan to defeat the Germans on the Volga. The accompanying threat to other German armies in the Caucasus was real enough, but by Moscow's own account it was a future threat...
Eleven transport planes were brought down in the Stalingrad area-Russian communique...
With the need, the rate of loss in Russia has also risen. Early in the campaign to relieve Stalingrad the Russians concentrated on the Luftwaffe transports; Moscow claimed the destruction of 46 in one day, 60 in another, 225 in seven days. The Germans apparently still had advanced airdromes for most of their armies, still had transports. Upon the Russians' ability to destroy these airlines to the German islands, victory might swing...