GENERAL'S ESCAPE
TANK ATTACKS POST STALINGRAD DEFENDER (British Official Wireless.) (11 a.m.) RUGBY, Oct. 18. Major - General Rodimtsev, the heroic defender of Stalingrad, recently had a narrow escape when an enemy tank nearly broke through to 1 is command post 300 metres from the front-line. The tank flat-ironed a bunker housing the headquarters of General Rodimtsev’s division, but the general and his staff were not hurt. General Rodimtsev’s guardsmen are sent to the most dangerous spots in Stalingrad and more than once have saved the situation. At one place they 'repelled a charge by two .divisions supported by 70 tanks, 42 of which were crippled by guardsmen. General Rodimtsev is a 36-year-old graduate of the Kremlin Military School and the Russian Military Academy. He was a pupil of Marshal Shaposhnikov. the present chief of the Russian general staff. General Rodimtsev fought as a volunteer against 'the Germans and Italians in Spain and was promoted majorgeneral last J ear.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20918, 19 October 1942, Page 3
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158GENERAL'S ESCAPE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20918, 19 October 1942, Page 3
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