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...would never be a Bataan, any more than Tunisia had ever been a "Stalingrad or could ever be a Dunkirk. Bataan served a strategic purpose: it denied Manila Bay to the Japs for many weeks. Cap Bon can serve no strategic purpose: the Allies can push on toward Europe without...
...could attack in force and to preserve Russian positions for the great assault to be launched later. If the second front did not develop as soon and as mightily as Stalin led his people to expect -well, they had no second front when they thrust the Germans back from Stalingrad, and Joseph Stalin had just reminded his allies that he could still act by himself...
...Luftwaffe, as is also Colonel General Alexander Lohr, who commands ground forces in the Balkans. As an air officer, his job will also be to try to effect an ending to the Tunisian campaign which is less bloody than Dun kirk, less shocking to Germans than the failure at Stalingrad...
Admiral William Harrison Standley, U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, no longer had cause to complain that the facts of Allied aid were being withheld from the Russians (TIME, March 15). The exchange of information and good will was two-way. In London, cinema audiences hailed a Russian film, Stalingrad, as the equal of Desert Victory, In the U.S., audiences and critics applauded MARCH OF TIME'S One Day of War, which had been derived from a longer Russian film, and the epic Siege of Leningrad...
...summaries issued last week, the Red Army claimed that it had, in the winter campaign, killed 850,000 Germans and captured 343,525. Earlier Russian figures had stated that during the battle of Stalingrad the Germans had lost 175,000 dead and 137,650 captured. Using the relatively reliable figures for prisoners, this means that 40% of the total casualties were inflicted at Stalingrad. It appeared that the Germans had sacrificed land in favor of men, and that the Russian winter campaign had done more to destroy Hitler's prestige than to destroy Hitler's force...