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...Bone-Grinder. Orel was for the Germans, like Stalingrad, a Knochenmühle (bone-grinder). A Nazi war correspondent wired the Völkischer Beobachter: "Today's setting sun has seen more soldiers dying than soldiers sleeping. For every single minute during the entire day all of us, from the last private to the highest staff officer, have been conscious of the monstrous Russian superiority. Our battalions had to be spread out very thin to meet the Russian attacks everywhere. Last night we were forced to retreat hastily. .. . All we could take with us were a few artillery pieces...
...Germans stuck to their assault tactics of last year: front-line bombing and heavy artillery preparation, followed by tank assaults and infantry. In defense, the Red Army also used familiar tactics, often letting the tanks through, then surrounding them and their suporting infantry. As at Stalingrad, the Russians had studded their front lines and rear with anti-tank strong points, ringed with mines, which caught the Nazi tanks in cross fire...
...trickery. But the fact was that German propagandists, like German militarists, were setting up their last and toughest line of defense. For the all-out battle which they expected, nothing less than the truth could serve as a weapon-for the German people had learned the truth at Stalingrad and in Tunisia...
...Late. By the third week of last June the Germans were storming Sevastopol. They had broken a great Russian assault on Kharkov. They had completed their preparations for the Wehrmacht's advance to disaster in the Caucasus and at Stalingrad. Between the end of March and June's third week this year, the Germans had merely held what they retrieved from the Russian winter offensive. Nowhere had the Russians attempted an attack on the scale of their Kharkov offensive last year. Only in the Kuban, the Germans' last bridgehead in the Caucasus, had the Red Army attempted...
Russians used them to whip artillery to the Stalingrad front to crush Nazi tank attacks. British used them to scout, fight and pursue Rommel 2,000 miles. U.S. troops had one waiting for President Roosevelt at Casablanca. Everywhere the tough, square, squat jeeps are bouncing the backsides of the United Nations. Potentates and savages ride jeeps; soldiers regard them fondly, pat their rugged sides. But the fondest pats of all come from Willys-Overland Motors, Inc., foster parent of the jeep. To Willys the jeep is a plug-ugly duckling who laid a golden...