World Battlefronts: The Wounded Sleep with Guns

Famed U.S. surgeon Elliott Carr Cutler, chief consulting surgeon of the European Theater of Operations, went to Russia last summer. Back in Algiers, Colonel Cutler last week recounted some of his impressions.

Their Own Country. The Russians are "the greatest people for fighting a total war you could ever find. ... I believe that if the Americans were fighting in their own country, they would make the same effort. But we are not making war now on anything like the same scale as Russia."

Their Own Enemy. The Russian hatred of the invading Nazis is so great that "Stalin couldn't stop the Red...

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