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Straight from battle Russian tanks lurched into the great Dzerzhinsky tractor plant for repairs, rumbled out again next morning to rejoin the fight. The Red October and Red Barricade plants kept grinding out guns and ammunition despite fire and bomb. Sprawling along the Volga in northern Stalingrad, the three plants were keystones to the city's defense-forts no less than arsenals. As the siege neared its 60th day, fighting focused on those factories...
Behind the Russians in Stalingrad a two-mile pontoon bridge, built of rough planks supported by empty gasoline cans, gave access across the Volga. Since Sept. 18 German bombers had dropped tons of explosives attempting to smash the bridge, but had done only minor damage and that was quickly repaired. But the floating bridge was a slender thread...
...Victory? The German explanation was that army reports "prefer not to give any premature announcement of the complete cleaning up of the city. The time when this announcement may finally be made has not the slightest influence on military events, since the strategic objective, namely the Volga, was reached weeks...
...Germans had battered their way to he Volga in places; they had brought up artillery to keep the river under constant fire. For Russia the Volga's usefulness night be ended temporarily. That was a German objective. But to win the 1942 offensive the Germans must take Stalingrad to have & to hold. In Russian hands he city is an ever-present menace to German lines strung through Rostov down into the Caucasus. Unless the Germans an consolidate their hold on the Volga nd clean out Stalingrad before November rains herald winter, Stalingrad will be Russia's victory...
...Stalingrad area our troops recaptured positions which they had lost the day before in one district of the town," the High command said in its only mention of infantry activity inside the Volga city...