Word: stalingraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MOSCOW--Russian armies rode roughshed over stubborn German resistance in the Stalingrad area and northwest of Moscow yesterday, capturing several localities and killing more than 7,000 Axis troops, the Soviet High Command announced today...
MOSCOW--Russian forces stormed deep into the heart of German defense systems west of Moscow and Stalingrad yesterday, capturing many forts and villages, the Red Army reported today in communiques revealing that 2,500 more Axis troops had been killed on the two fronts...
...announcement that 20,000 Germans wore slain in the Stalingrad area since last Thursday and another 7,500 killed on the central front raised the official tabulation of dead and wounded in the twin offensives...
West of Matrûh we passed through the greatest dump of motorized equipment in the world, with the possible exception of Stalingrad. The edges of the road and the desert as far as we could see were strewn with wrecked German and Italian tanks, armored cars, motorcycles, lorries and staff cars. In between were tires of Jerry cars and munitions of all kinds from bullets to bombs, tools and helmets, and carcasses of beef...
...Seven Days' Battle, 1862. Here Robert E. Lee, with inferior forces, outmaneuvered McClellan and saved Richmond, the loss of which would have changed the whole course of the Civil War. Lee's casualties were on a Stalingrad scale...