On the right is a 1942 Newsweek report on the under-supplied Red Army and their strong counter-offensive at Stalingrad:
“…The Red command played its trump cards – two parallel counter-offensives aimed at the exposed Nazi left flank. One of the two Red columns began its push from the Volga, above Stalingrad. Moved across the river under the cover of darkness, this column pushed southward between the Volga and the Don. Its immediate gains consisted of a series of fortified hills… Short on tanks and planes, the Reds found the task far from easy. Among their perils were steppe grass fires, started by the Nazis to prevent Soviet night attacks.”
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