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...Paris. It was Hitler who failed to take Moscow in August 1942, by ordering all eastern reserves into the Ukraine. He had a mystical fear of Moscow because of Napoleon's fate. The Führer, according to Halder, thought he could crush the Russians by taking Stalingrad and Leningrad, because they were named for the two most venerated Bolshevist leaders...
Corporal Slick's Ride. The battle of Stalingrad was under way when the first men of the P.G.C. landed. Droves of supply-packed Liberty ships soon followed. But from the port of Bandar Shahpur there was no transport to Russia except a single-track railroad, running across desert as bare as the Sahara and through 47 miles of tunnels in mountains almost as high as the Rockies...
...thunder trailed off into a tinkling minuet. The dust of Sidi Barrani, Stalingrad and Aachen had dissolved; and there, as in a dream, were the clipped green lawns of Sanssouci. There was a second palace, a big and ugly one, and a pretty little lake. And there were the Big Three, enjoying a summer evening of music...
General Huebner, who rose from a buck private, commanded the ist Infantry on the Normandy beaches. In Germany, he was known for his ability to get on with the Russians. They presented him with a tattered flag from Stalingrad. Czechoslovakia's President Benes also decorated...
...weeks after the Battle of Stalingrad, Moslem tribesmen revolted in northern Sinkiang along the Outer Mongolian border. General Sheng sent three Chinese regiments and his tiny air force to put down the rebels...