Word: stalingraders
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...really definite news it was perfectly clear that the Americans were closing in on the town. And with the obvious folly the French had already shown in the earlier operations, I wasn't sure they might not be fools enough to attempt to try to make a Stalingrad of the town. So the morning of the 11th maybe it wasn't a relief to find that an armistice had been arranged! I called on the Swiss consul who had taken over American interests, found that the American consulate people were expected back soon. The Swiss took...
MOSCOW--The Russian Army swept in today to complete Adolf Hitler's greatest military disaster--utter defeat in the Battle of Stalingrad with a loss of more than 1,000,000 men--and reported that total victory would be won in a matter of hours...
Only a ragtag handful of Germans, the diehards of a vaunted army of 330,000 trapped more than two months ago, remained entrenched in the wreckage of Stalingrad's factory area. Another 900 of them had been killed in the last few hours, and many more were captured...
...Luftwaffe was also overtaxed early in the campaign. At first as many as 500 transport planes flew in every day with supplies for the besieged forces at Stalingrad. Later the daily flights averaged 150, losses were constant and the Russians captured several airdromes at both ends of the German supply line, forcing the Germans to fly farther...
...Kalmuck steppes, below Stalingrad, the correspondents saw hundreds of ruined German tanks, munitions dumps captured intact, many abandoned guns. At Kotelnikov, where the Germans had failed in their chief attempt to break through and save their Stalingrad army, Correspondent Kerr traced the history of Axis disaster. In a park which the Germans had made a cemetery when Kotelnikov was securely theirs, the German graves lay between neat rows of bricks, and wooden crosses, bore the name, birth date and rank of each soldier. Then there were shallow graves, marked rudely and in haste. On the battlefields outside the town...