Word: stalingraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Railways & Rivers. Russian dispatches told of reserves thrown in to strenghen Timoshenko's lines. But thus far they had done no more than stay the tide of battle before Stalingrad...
Rostov, at the Don's mouth, was captured. In eight days Bock's mechanized forces dashed some 170 miles through the Don Valley. Only 50 miles from Stalingrad were they slowed to resumption of foot-by-foot fighting...
...Junker von Bock, who has squandered men to win and lose some of Nazi Germany's greatest battles,* poured military dispatches that told him his foe was all but whipped in the northern Caucasus, that Timoshenko's main strength was apparently concentrated in a vast arc before Stalingrad, that German positions along the Don at Voronezh were safe for the moment. Bock might be on the threshold of an even greater victory. He could look with satisfaction on what his Panzers, shock troops, snub-nosed caterpillar guns and rank-on-rank of efficient infantrymen had achieved. He could...
...manganese, iron, mercury and food riches of the southwest. Ahead of the Germans lay the fabulous Baku oilfields. To win them the Nazis would not only have to complete the job of cutting off the southern lines of resistance, but cross the formidable Caucasus mountains. But if they took Stalingrad, now 75 miles beyond their grasp, the hardest part of the task would be done...
Near Voronezh, 300 miles north of Rostov, the Red army lunged savagely at the Germans, striving to turn the enemy's flank and relieve pressure on the bulge toward Stalingrad. The thrust was feeble. Russia's gravest hour was at hand...