A deepening sense of imminent, decisive action overhung the Russian front. Hitler had promised one final effort to knock the Russians out of the war. Stalin, in a cordial message to the victors of Tunisia, said that a coordinated blow by the Red Army in the east and the Allies in the west was very near.
Last week, in the Caucasus, the Russians drove home the first major blow of the spring. Under an umbrella of air power, Red divisions stormed Hitler's vital Kuban bridgehead, crashed through Krimsk, 15 miles northeast of Novorossüsk,...
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