By Alex Kershaw
Within the early morning hours of October 24, 1944, the mythical U.S. army submarine Tang was once hit via considered one of its personal defective torpedoes. The survivors of the explosion struggled to stick alive one hundred-eighty toes underneath the outside, whereas the japanese dropped lethal intensity fees. because the air ran out, a few of the team made a bold ascent during the get away hatch. in any case, simply 9 of the unique eighty-man workforce survived.
But the survivors have been starting a miles higher ordeal. After being picked up by means of the japanese, they have been despatched to an interrogation camp referred to as the “Torture Farm.” once they have been liberated in 1945, they have been with reference to dying, yet that they had printed not anything to the japanese, together with the best mystery of global struggle II.
With a similar heart-pounding narrative force that made The Bedford Boys and The Longest Winter nationwide bestsellers, Alex Kershaw brings to lifestyles this very good tale of survival and persistence.
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Ammunition was given top priority, but the 1st Belorussian Front also had to provide fuel for its 2,000-odd tanks and assault guns, 7,000 trucks, 3,000 heavy artillery tractors and 2,500 supporting aircraft, as well as a daily consumption of 1,500 tons of bread and 220 tons of meat. The dumps were filled with the help of 1,200 trains (with 68,000 individual waggon-loads), and thousands of trucks were overhauled to carry the supplies beyond the railheads. The railway tracks through eastern Poland had been widened to the Russian gauge, which was a heroic undertaking in itself, and it was particularly difficult to transport the supplies on the final stage across the Vistula to the bridgeheads, for the bridges had only just been built by the Russian military engineers, and they were few and not especially strong.
Overview of operations, January-April 1945 RED STORM ON THE REICH occasional timid gleam showing through a chink. (Shtemenko, 1985, 375) The private face of Stalin was less accessible. It was not long since he had been found at his desk, unconscious from illness and exhaustion. When Marshal G. K. Zhukov was summoned to Stalin's country house in March 1945, he too found that the supreme commander's appearance, voice and walk all betrayed weariness. Zhukov ventured to ask whether anything more had been heard of Stalin's son Yakov, a pilot who had fallen into the hands of the Germans.
Both Fronts were well stocked with supplies when the offensive began, and the example of Zhukov's army group indicates the kind of quantities involved. Ammunition was given top priority, but the 1st Belorussian Front also had to provide fuel for its 2,000-odd tanks and assault guns, 7,000 trucks, 3,000 heavy artillery tractors and 2,500 supporting aircraft, as well as a daily consumption of 1,500 tons of bread and 220 tons of meat. The dumps were filled with the help of 1,200 trains (with 68,000 individual waggon-loads), and thousands of trucks were overhauled to carry the supplies beyond the railheads.