Word: stalingraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eyes on Astrakhan. As the Germans hammered east from Rostov, it apeared that Nazi strategists might be planning to by-pass Stalingrad, whose defense lines for three weeks have remained relatively unchanged in the Don bend. Cutting the Volga at Astrakhan would be just as effective as servering it at Stalingrad. Between the German forces bulging east from Rostov and their river objective lie only rolling steppes, covered with slivery feather grass, ridged with few hills, marked by few towns. It is terrain eminently suitable for mechanized warfare. Part is scorching desert now, particularly as it slopes down...
...Tanks. On the critical front between Stalingrad and the North Caucasus the Germans smashed ahead with all their brawn and brains. Railways, supply depots and rolling stock were the particular targets of a section of the Luftwaffe detailed to pound interior supply lines. In groups of from two to 15 planes they came over, often on 15-minute schedules, led to their prey by protecting Messerschmitts. Parachutists armed with tommy-guns were dropped extensively behind the Russian lines. Planes also were dropping tanketka (baby tanks) in numbers that caused plenty of trouble unless Soviet units isolated and destroyed them...
...Stalingrad Under Fire. The fluid front aimed toward Astrakhan also presented a new threat to Stalingrad. A Don river crossing southwest of the city raised the menace of encirclement from that direction, though the Red Army put up a foot-by-foot defense...
...Russians are fighting for Stalingrad as they fought for Moscow and Leningrad...
...Stalingrad is the St. Louis of the Volga. The western shore is a wall of brown four-storied landing stages that look like floating Montana boardinghouses. Large-bosomed women hand out of windows. Moppets, stripped to the waist, fish for minnows with flies hooked to bent pins...