The Red Army tightened its coils around charred, desolate Korsun (see map), early this week choked the town off. In the surrounding area, the remnants of ten German divisions still fought, still hoped. But hope was running low. They were pressed in so tightly that all their airfields were under artillery fire. German transports with food and ammunition occasionally broke through with dropped deliveries, but Russian fighter pilots intercepted most of the lumbering air freighters and shot them down.
To the southeast, on the soggy approaches to Nikopol, five other divisions were...
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