Word: stalingraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battered Stalingrad, for the first time in three months, there was quiet for a few hours. Then the Germans staged an assault big enough to make small gains at great cost. But by this week they had been driven out of the two streets they had managed to capture...
MOSCOW--The defenders of Stalingrad have smashed German wedges and re-sealed their lines after a two-day battle in which upwards of 1500 enemy troops were killed or wounded, the Soviet High Command announced today...
Last week, before the Americans landed in Vichy Africa, there were private reports that the British victory in Egypt had already compelled the Germans to withdraw troops and planes from both the Stalingrad, and Caucasus fronts. Up to this week neither official announcements nor visible events in Russia had confirmed these rumors. When & if such withdrawals do occur, the Russians will know that they have their second front...
...significant change in Wehrmacht strategy last week indicated that the Germans' actual margin of supremacy in Russia may be narrow indeed. Stalingrad became a secondary theater. The ports and oilfields of the Caucasus and the entrances to the Caucasus passes leading to the Middle East suddenly became the primary objectives at which the Germans aimed their strong thrusts. It looked as if the Germans might not have enough strength for pushes in both areas. But, both at Stalingrad and in the Caucasus, the Red Army was still on the defensive. The Germans' difficulties in Russia had not created...
...Stalingrad, the Red Army assailed small groups of Germans busy fortifying positions and killed up to 700 of them, the Soviet midnight communique reported...