Word: stalingraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were rising to their trial with the ferocious courage of a people fired by undaunted faith in their motherland. Their Red army, battered and bleeding on the south Russian plains, was locked in history's greatest battle. Beneath Nazi bludgeoning the Red army was reeling back, back toward Stalingrad, back toward the Caspian, back toward Asia...
...Blow. Even so, it was easy to exaggerate what the Germans actually accomplished last week. They did not yet have the entire Don valley. They did not yet entirely command the valley's vital railway communications from Moscow and Stalingrad. They did not yet have control of the Voronezh area, which the Russians defended at all costs for its rail communications and its value as an anchor for the Red army's sagging southern line. The Nazis had the important manufacturing city of Voroshilovgrad, but they did not yet have Rostov, important for its factories, for access...
...monster, bigger than the biggest U.S. battleship gun; and a 61.5-cm. supermonster, mounted on a four-track rail truck. These presumably were the weapons which helped to pulverize Sevastopol. They were far too big for use on quickly shifting fronts such as the Don. But, if Rostov and Stalingrad fell under siege, the Russians would probably feel their weight again...
...have met Red airmen, and they are good. At Stalingrad our boat took aboard 100 or so pilots and mechanics who had just been in action at Voronezh. They were members of a famous Stormovik group commanded by Colonel Boris Rivenshstein, one of the Soviet Union's greatest airmen...
...Banner. Ankara's rumor mills last week ground out the report that Joseph Stalin was on his way from Moscow to Stalingrad, one of the southern cities which Timoshenko was trying to save. If the story was true, it completed a parallel of Red Army history: Timoshenko fought at Stalingrad (then Tsaritsyn) after the Revolution, when the White Armies of Denikin and Kolchak were trying to crush the new Russia, and (according to orthodox Communist history) Stalin himself superseded the Red generals, saved the city and Russia with a series of campaigns over the land where the Nazis advanced...