Word: stalingraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MOSCOW--Stalingrad's defenders have hurled back German forces which broke through their lines briefly Sunday to reach an important objective and in the Central Caucasus Cossack cavalrymen have stain 1700 of the enemy in two days' fighting the Russians announced today...
...still strong, the headlines announce every day. Is it strong enough to turn upon and defeat the sorely wounded German Armies? Its only important counteroffensives this year (at Voronezh and Orel, at Rzhev on the Moscow front) were failures. Marshal Semion Timoshenko's limited counteroffensive above Stalingrad in six weeks has failed to advance the Red troops the bare ten miles or so which they had to cover to relieve Stalingrad...
...this year the demonstrated offensive power of the Red Army has been almost nil. One explanation may be that the Russians are deliberately conserving their real power for a better time, as they did in the weeks before the Germans reached Stalingrad's outskirts. If so, they have by choice passed up their opportunity to attack in full force on the central and northern fronts while the Wehrmacht's main strength is in the south. According to German reports, the Russians may be about to seize this opportunity. Until they do, only the Red Army's commanders...
...Stalingrad's best streets stood Apartment 21-A. It had had a corner sheered off by a German bomb, but Sub-Lieutenant Svetkov and a handful of grenadiers held the building for nine days. Barricades, trenches and machine guns were prepared to control the street intersection. At dawn twelve heavy German tanks, loaded with shocks troops, attacked. Hits from anti-tank guns set five afire. Seven rumbled on. Svetkov and his men had no more anti-tank ammunition, so they hurled grenades from the windows. Three more tanks were disabled. Four came...
MOSCOW--Russian troops fell back to new battle posts under concentrated German assaults in the Nalchik area of the Caucasua yesterday but counter-attacked strongly in some parts of Stalingrad and forged ahead through several enemy positions, the Red Army announced today...