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Battle for Stalingrad

... Battle for Stalingrad Red Star also reports that on the Kotelnikov front—loo miles south-west of Stalingrad—the Germans succeeded in driving a wedge into the Soviet positions in one sector, forcing the Red Army men to fall back to new defence lines, but ...

Published: Saturday 08 August 1942
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 504 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Big Soviet Concentration

... Russian concentration since the Battle of Stalingrad, when the same number on four fronts, drove the Germans back from the Volga. “ Most of the officers and men of this newly designated front are veterans of the Battle of Stalingrad and are now fighting for ...

Published: Monday 25 October 1943
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 167 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

STALINGRAD BATTLE

... STALINGRAD BATTLE NAZIS CLAIM PROGRESS IN NORTHERN DISTRICT the battle for Stalingrad (see Page 2) the attack yesterday led to a penetration into the northern district of the town. In vain the enemy continued his relieving attacks irom the north.” This ...

Published: Tuesday 29 September 1942
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 167 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Russians on Attack

... Russians on Attack While the battle for Stalingrad continues with unabated fury, elsewhere—south of Lake Ladoga on Leningrad front, before Rzhev, south of Voronezh and in the southeastern Caucasus—the Russians are pressing home strong attacks and in most ...

Published: Thursday 17 September 1942
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 112 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

American Advance

... German communique used the term mobile Avarfare ’ for the first time since the battle of Stalingrad. To-day it was applied to the fighting in Sicilr. “ During the battle of Stalingrad he words were meant to cover the act of retreat.” The 'British Sailors’ Society ...

Published: Monday 19 July 1943
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 349 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

German Admission

... tanks, 90 guns of all types, an armoured train, several ships and large quantities of other war material. Of the battle for Stalingrad the communique says that in spite of stubborn resistance German troops took further number of heights. The Volga, bridges ...

Published: Tuesday 08 September 1942
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 122 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

NEW RED ARMY GENERALS

... appointments of generals made for the Red Army throughout the war. Colonel Peter Grokhov. commanding a unit in the battle of Stalingrad, is raised to major-general. Alexander Scherbakov, chief of the Political Department of the Red Army and head of the ...

Published: Monday 07 December 1942
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 118 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

NAZIS DOOMED

... NAZIS DOOMED “.NOTHING WILL DIVERT US GETTING THEIR OWN MEDICINE OUR AIRMEN TO INCREASE DOSE The Battle of Germany will rank with the Battle of Stalingrad and nothing will divert us from our aim to paralyse German war industry and transport, said Sir Archibald ...

Published: Saturday 22 January 1944
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 133 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

german claims

... German troops, supported by Luftwaffe squadrons, dislodged the enemy from pill-boxes and forest positions. “In the battle for Stalingrad, infantry and tank units co-operating with close-range fighters, captured in fierce house-to-house fighting further ...

Published: Monday 05 October 1942
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 129 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Von Bock’s Next Objectives

... Von Bock’s Next Objectives Vichy radio to-day said that the battle tor Stalingrad is now nearing its climax. The Russians, opposing an attempt to encircle the city from the north, have launched fresh counter-attacks, but Von Bock’s forces are increasing ...

Published: Monday 10 August 1942
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 141 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

HITLER AND ARMY

... HITLER AND ARMY STILL AT LOGGERHEADS OVER STALINGRAD GERMANS 500,000 LOSSES Stockholm, Monday. The fight between the Nazi party and the German Array as to whether the battle for Stalingrad should be continued is still going on in Berlin, says a well-informed ...

Published: Monday 02 November 1942
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 178 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

200 Tanks in Street Battle

... 200 Tanks in Street Battle “ The biggest street battle in Stalingrad to date took place yesterday. Two hundred German tanks with several thousand infantrymen on lorries burst into the centre of the town. The German artillery kept up a non-stop barrage ...

Published: Thursday 24 September 1942
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 181 | Page: 2 | Tags: none