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MOSCOW--Russian forces stormed deep into the heart of German defense systems west of Moscow and Stalingrad yesterday, capturing many forts and villages, the Red Army reported today in communiques revealing that 2,500 more Axis troops had been killed on the two fronts...
...week's end the Russians held the initiative all along the Eastern Front from Leningrad to the Caucasus. Around Stalingrad the chilled and unhappy Germans were backing up before a sudden Russian offensive...
...unknown factor was the true nature of the Germans' winter plans. If, for example, they had deliberately withdrawn troops from Stalingrad's rear toward the Don and prepared for a stand there, the Russian advances might not have been a complete shock to Hitler. The facts remained that the Red Army had shown its best offensive generalship to date, that it had punctured the Germans' Don-Volga line, and that the battle was not yet over...
West of Matrûh we passed through the greatest dump of motorized equipment in the world, with the possible exception of Stalingrad. The edges of the road and the desert as far as we could see were strewn with wrecked German and Italian tanks, armored cars, motorcycles, lorries and staff cars. In between were tires of Jerry cars and munitions of all kinds from bullets to bombs, tools and helmets, and carcasses of beef...
...Seven Days' Battle, 1862. Here Robert E. Lee, with inferior forces, outmaneuvered McClellan and saved Richmond, the loss of which would have changed the whole course of the Civil War. Lee's casualties were on a Stalingrad scale...