Kharkov Sector Looks Like Hell

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 117, 20 May 1942, Page 7

Kharkov Sector Looks Like Hell

VAST TANK BATTLE Principal Soviet Objective To Smash Nazi Preparations (United Press Association.-Copyright.-Rcc. l p . m .) r I r, LONDON, May 18 a " !r which is now in its ninth dav Oh 8 a^ vance on Kharkov, op.nion that Marshal h ow are of the ri '"'I objective the disorganisation achleved h,s P™for the drive on the Caucasus. German preparations ami have pen« a "ed r 'lhrKK a ",l °" . d f spite continued resistance, ■10 miles. According to „»o . t'"", 5 , '° a de P th ° f ™to ablaze. A National York, Kharkov is thr battle zone looks like hell T, ° rp ° r^ tlon c ° rre spondent says dr.ds of burned-out German tanlT 1 d® httCred with hun " up isolated groups of German Vl 'c l 6 uss,ans are mopping . appear to have a " ° f be wUdered and battle' 'r""." "»»'■ 'hat » v,„ tank German tank® pfcrced he R f * ■ no "h-«»t of Kharkov. Red Army quickly brouaht in I'd" POS . lllons ln ™' sector, but the tank guns, rifles and Stormoviks concentration of antiwithdraw. ' ene my tanks to

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