Word: stalingraders
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...year in which the outcome-the question of who would win and who would lose-still dangled precariously in the balance. The trend of the war had been reversed in 1942 at Stalingrad and El Alamein. By early 1944 the U.S. was almost fully armed-thanks mainly to the Man of 1943, General George Catlett Marshall...
...reply to Allied criticism of inaction. The Red Army could have cited major difficulties, chiefly that of supplying an offensive front 1,200 to 1,600 miles from main production centers. The Germans had run into that problem, at about the same distances, in their disastrous effort to take Stalingrad. Before a prolonged offensive could be built up, it had been necessary for the Russians to build up rail transport in battle-ravaged eastern Poland. Winter had come late...
Armed with a bronze plaque for the City of Stalingrad, General Charles de Gaulle climbed into his transport plane and zoomed off for Moscow. In Cairo, he dropped down for a chat with Egypt's King Farouk. In Teheran, he dropped down for a chat with Iran's Shah Reza Pahlevi. But at Baku, Russia's big oil city on the Caspian Sea, General de Gaulle ran into General Winter...
...travel was perilous. General de Gaulle and fellow travelers (among them: Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, Chief of Staff General Alphonse Juin) chafed, killed time at the Azerbaijan Opera House, then caught a train for Stalingrad. There the General watched steel pour from the furnaces of the Red October Metal Plant (now restored to 60% of former production), tractors roll from the assembly line of the Stalingrad Tractor Works. General de Gaulle presented the "Homage of France" and the bronze plaque in memory of Stalingrad's defense to the city...
...East Prussia, Free German propagandists with the Red Army microphone their ex-comrades to surrender. They helped soften the Wehrmacht for last summer's great defeat in White Russia. After that debacle, 17 Wehrmacht generals, including Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, commander of the Sixth Army at Stalingrad, joined the Free Germans...