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Henry Shapiro, correspondent for the United Press in Moscow, will speak at the oFrd Hall Forum in John Hancock Hall Sunday evening. Shapiro, who just returned from Russia, after distinguishing himself by being the first newspaperman to visit the Stalingrad front, will discuss "The Latest Word from the Russian Front...
...came to Russia. For five months the Germans moved with wondrous speed and dazzling power. Stubborn Voronov stuck to his artillery. There came a time when the Wehrmacht's great blitzkrieg machine stood at the gates of Leningrad, Stalingrad, the Caucasus. Voronov still stuck to his artillery...
...Stalingrad. All through the summer of 1942, the Red Army retreated-and Voronov hoarded his cannon. Like Stalin, he gambled on Stalingrad's guts. If the city held out, the hoarded men and guns would play havoc with the Germans. Stalingrad held...
...street knew what Voronov looked like. One photograph showed him receiving his medal from small, bearded President Mikhail Kalinin, and smiling self-consciously, like a boy in his first long pants. Another showed him questioning beaten Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus in a bare room near Stalingrad. On Moscow's Kuznetsky Most, an enterprising art gallery exhibited his portrait in oil-blue eyes, bulbous nose, big, friendly mouth, heavy jowls...
Tactics. After Stalingrad came other triumphs. At Kursk last summer Hitler made his final, desperate attempt to win in Russia. Voronov's cannon mauled many hundreds of the thick-skinned, monstrous "Tigers" (60-ton Mark VI tanks) and "Ferdinands" (70-ton self-propelled guns), crushed Hitler's hopes. At Leningrad, two months ago, Voronov's guns reduced to rubble one of the Wehrmacht's most powerful defense systems...