Word: stalingraders
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...seething acre of, say, Stalingrad...
...most remarkable documents of World War II-a summary of the Red Army's great winter offensives in the south-the Russians said last week: >The single objective of all the southern offensives was to "surround and defeat the German troops at Stalingrad." > "This plan was carried out in November and December...
...brought into action Dec. 8, the jungle battle had been at an impasse. Then 13-ton General Stuarts, U.S.-made, Australian-manned, blasted Jap bunkers that previously had been impregnable. Infantry followed into the maze of connecting trenches with grenades, machine guns and bayonets. Bunker by bunker, as at Stalingrad, the process went...
...weeks ago U.P.'s Moscow dispatches began coming through signed by Shapiro's assistant, Meyer Handler (once in U.P.'s Paris office); Shapiro had disappeared. Last week, when he returned to Moscow and feverishly began cabling copy, the U.S. found out where he had gone-to Stalingrad, to become the first U.S. or British correspondent to eyewitness the Volga city's battered battlefields. How he got the break, Shapiro did not explain, but in his delayed and heavily-censored dispatches, datelined "With the Red Army on the Stalingrad Front," he predicted that Stalingrad would soon...
Best dispatch was an interview with a Red general, who told of Russian tricks in Stalingrad. Sample: "A man should not be afraid to take a position in the immediate neighborhood of the enemy. . . . Artillery and aviation hit their own troops if the distance between trenches is 20 to 40 meters. As soon as German planes appear over Stalingrad our artillery opens fire and the Germans send up rockets signaling: 'Don't hit our own troops.' We give exactly the same signal, and then the devil himself couldn't tell where or how to bomb...