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...first three days of the Russian advances, the Red Army's gains were both impressive and promising. Marshal Semion Timoshenko's troops, attacking northwest and southwest of Stalingrad, broke through in two places and drove 50 miles to the western banks of the Don, and then 90 miles beyond. The Russians routed half a dozen German divisions, captured hundreds of artillery pieces, killed some 26,000 Germans and captured 24,000 others...
...Russians also took strategic cities (Abganerovo and Kalach, on the Don) and-most important of all-cut both railroad lines used by the Germans to supply their army at Stalingrad. The ends of two Russian spearheads were less than 50 miles apart. If Marshal Timoshenko drew them together, the entire German siege force at Stalingrad might be trapped...
...frightened neutrals." In the first nine months of 1940 Russia shipped nearly 1,000,000 tons of oil and huge quantities of fodder and grain to Germany. Russian industrial production was ruthlessly stepped up (it became a crime for a worker to arrive more than 20 minutes late). Marshal Timoshenko put the Red Army through extended battle practice, stiffened discipline...
...That the Red Army still exists, and is still strong, the headlines announce every day. Is it strong enough to turn upon and defeat the sorely wounded German Armies? Its only important counteroffensives this year (at Voronezh and Orel, at Rzhev on the Moscow front) were failures. Marshal Semion Timoshenko's limited counteroffensive above Stalingrad in six weeks has failed to advance the Red troops the bare ten miles or so which they had to cover to relieve Stalingrad...
...Stalingrad the Germans claimed that they had finally taken the whole of the Red October airplane factory-"except one hangar." Marshal Timoshenko's counterattacks made meager progress, but in the city Red troops fought not only street by street but room by room...