Word: voronezh
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...Blow. Even so, it was easy to exaggerate what the Germans actually accomplished last week. They did not yet have the entire Don valley. They did not yet entirely command the valley's vital railway communications from Moscow and Stalingrad. They did not yet have control of the Voronezh area, which the Russians defended at all costs for its rail communications and its value as an anchor for the Red army's sagging southern line. The Nazis had the important manufacturing city of Voroshilovgrad, but they did not yet have Rostov, important for its factories, for access...
...have met Red airmen, and they are good. At Stalingrad our boat took aboard 100 or so pilots and mechanics who had just been in action at Voronezh. They were members of a famous Stormovik group commanded by Colonel Boris Rivenshstein, one of the Soviet Union's greatest airmen...
...cabin to practice his English and play phonograph records. He is 32, handsome and blue-eyed. He has been flying since he was 17 and has a handshake like Joe Louis'. Stalin has received him three times. His group, fighting almost continuously on the Moscow, Kalinin, Orel and Voronezh fronts, has shot down about 200 German planes, and in six attacks recently destroyed 167 planes on the ground. The group has lost 20 Russian planes and 13 pilots. "Twenty for one is a good enough average," Boris says with smiling eyes and a slap on his thigh...
...high morale of Colonel Rivenshstein's group unfortunately does not alter the fact, attested by Moscow communiques and dispatches, that the German air force has had decisive numerical superiority on the southern front. A local exception to this rule was the Voronezh sector...
Slowly the Germans crept toward Voronezh. They crossed and cut Russia's important railway link between Moscow and Rostov. They commanded the middle reaches of the Don, although they had yet to master its lower channel, where most of the river's traffic moves, where Russia breeds her fighting Cossacks. Some 100 miles below Voronezh, the Nazis seized Rossosh. Then they drove on south and eastward...