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This week again all was quiet on the eastern front. But behind it Red engineers built roads and bridges, supply trains moved up in endless columns, fresh troops marched westward, for the next offensive. Where it would come few knew. Best guesses: 1) toward Lwów; 2) across northern Poland; 3) both...
...published a picture of the headstone at the grave of my friend, Bonnie A. Little. It occurs to me that the editors and readers of TIME will be interested in certain facts concerning this marine, since no mention of him is made in the Tarawa piece entitled "On to Westward...
Gamble. Propaganda aside, other information from neutral sources indicated that the Germans had moved substantial forces westward in recent weeks, and that Nazi lack of reserves had contributed to the extraordinary speed of the Russian advance in the Ukraine. If so, the Second Front is already yielding military profits and the German High Command has now a tough decision to make: whether to dip into its central strategic reserve (believed to be from 40 to 50 divisions) to try to salvage the situation in Rumania. Swedish military sources estimated that the German southern wing must have at least 20 fresh...
Cleaning Up. This week, after several days of inactivity (probably waiting for supplies to catch up), Marshal Konev's Central Ukrainian Army pushed across the Prut River and resumed its southward and westward march, narrowing the Nazi escape corridor from the Ukraine and at the same time mopping up Bessarabia and penetrating Rumania proper...
...pastel waltzes of the Strauss operetta Die Fledermaus† were interrupted to report: "Hostile aircraft have turned westward." The operetta resumed with the aria, What Happiness to Forget What Cannot Be Changed...