London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1945, London, Middlesex                                11 War week the red Blitz is going by Joe Weston War week staff writer the second a id was straight a Snow cover d Mitten covering the hand of a soviet artillerymen wiped the Frost j from the watch it was 10po uncounted thousands of massed artillery pieces poured salvos of hate into German positions from Southern Poland to East this was the jump off of the terrific red army an offensive the soviet press choose to Call operation the icy air Over the Heads of advancing cavalry and tankers As the creeping artillery barrage i filled the nazi trenches and Strong Points with half conscious stunned by the fright Ful three million men As this is being red army troops have Petie rated into the Lebensraum Afi several Warsaw and Cracow have been liberated As Well As More than other towns and villages along a 550 mile soviet Jinnies have gained 130 Miles in the past week on the polish front six armies totalling nearly three million red including corps of tank Jire cascading West toward the operational booming along behind the with the ahead of the troops is the main Shock of the red once again this j Shock Force is Clearing the Road so As it did at Stalingrad and Kiev and the House that Hitler built is getting the fuehrer out of it by the greatest concentration of offensive wheel wheel Power the world has Ever j this massed artillery pattern is Well known to the Shell shocked Jerry who was at Moscow Jor Stalingrad or now inhabits a bed in a Berlin mental it is unfortunate that he cannot pass on the Rich fruits of his experience to the Kraut recruits Jiow in the if he was in better his combat tips to the new boys might read something like this when the germans invaded the soviet Union the red army already soviet information service massed batteries of red army like these pour Hail of steel on retreating Simeon Myasnikov top drops his hand and red Shock Force booms Victory tune on polish artillerymen Clement Akhmetova Circle holds first army Shell to land in East Prussia in current Winter possessed firs class and that was one of the most important reasons Why the nazi Blitz during peacetime the entire soviet including the Large Caliper had been trained to Deal with the red army strategists were on the they had watched the Kraut Blitz through Western Europe they had profited wheel to wheel at Moscow the reds had massed antitank guns wheel to Artil Lery of All types was set for Point Blank fire at the lumbering Jerry German panthers and King tigers rushed in where they should have stayed in they got knocked off with neatness and of them by the deadly red As a result the general staff had to change tactics in the Middle of a losses of men and equipment were the Blitz finally developed a first rate Case of not Moscow celebrates red liberation of Warsaw with artillery salvos a Ami it is to completely Stop the Ger Man Advance in the Early but the artillery did slow up the Armor gained valuable time for the in marshal Stalin figured out an for the artillery based strictly on offensive measures and instructed that artillery action against the enemy defense must be continuously sustained both during the preparation of an during the attack itself and in exploiting the this was the blackboard Quarter backing which brought the red steamroller to its present climactic it is the for artillery which is making a mastered race out of the master in the red army at Stalingrad launched the counter offensive despite some Neces sary slowdowns and Hast stopped rolling it was the Blue print for today always massed fire then As the sudden use of artillery insured the Success of the rocket firing antitank guns of All calipers and arid with one gun for every two Yards of highly disconcerting to the sensitive krauts when fired at Pointblank then came he moved and he fired and he but always massed and he walked and he Rode the and in front of him Jas always that paralysing artillery bar rage creeping just ahead of the the Mobile cavalry and tankers which were then thrown into the Hole in the nazi doughnut were also provided with massed artillery the net result of the Stalingrad engagement is Well even Joe 1 Kraut press  pass that one it is to be hoped that he has a better explanation for the current red offensive than the armies Are withdrawing according to the red Riding along on the Backbone of their have come a Long Way since the historic City and most of the user Are now a rear but the tactics Haven changed a the As the War has progressed so has the red new new according to a recent report by Viktor red the soviet artillery now shies away from stationary pm placed by Long the Good colonel Means anything More than ten or 15 our he have preferred to go in for which Means increasing the Power of the projectiles even if it tends to Cut the at the same time retaining approximately ten Miles is the maximum useful Range for Artil mobility is vital the report also states that the red artillery has practically ceased using extremely Long Range guns because it is senseless to build costly emplacements and transport unwieldy giant guns when the objective can be reached rapidly by armoured battering rams or even motorized it is far More effective to engage the enemy at close Smirnov speaking of the soviet lads have developed an effective for the past two weeks the Onrush ing red annies Hae been doing a chains Ore business in dead from Flie East and from the Vest Allied soldiers Are damping the steel jaws of destiny around the nazi the deadly soviet breakthrough on the Eastern front once again Points up the pulverizing effect of the wheel wheel artillery fire which has been the Backbone of the red offensive Power since method of catching panzers with their steel which War correspondent Vadim Kremlin Ernie Down in a pretty fair it happened on the Eastern front during the first Day of the present this Battle was fought on a Snow Clad Meadow Between two tree the howitzer batteries of a soviet guards unit had been on the Road for Many the Crews were badly in need of the Comman Der ordered a halt and the column swerved from the the enor Mous to which any less than a Threefoot Wall seemed As fragile As sidled among the slender looking particularly ungainly and guards were posted and a few of the gun Crews alerted for possible then it panzers and 20 troop carriers bore Down headlong on the which had no time to get into fighting the panzers approached in open racing for the their Cannon and machine guns the red order was stand and Semyon Terekhov turned nil gun on the enemy tanks and waited for them to get in close the gun layer was Terekhov re placed a direct hit set the first German tank Terekhov was killed at his gun after he had gotten another guns panzers Ivanovs gun was concealed in a he was nearest the and had to withstand the attack of 26 his gun shield was but he resisted the temptation to fire until the leading tank was looming right Over whereupon he killed it with his first i smashed four panzers by looking inst the slits of their eyes with his Shamin knocked out Twat ame Shayev accounted for two Pokrovsky died the flaming tank he had set the enemy tried to skirt the soviet the artillerymen their to the rear of the the Kitchen men and the drive Ujj were holding their own against nazi in two hours the red put 24 heavy German tanks out off towards the end of the second hour the enemy soviet artillerymen Are the giants a land of like their comrades and Allied soldiers fight with hate in their hearts Berlin in their Allied troops on All fronts go Al with the red newspaper Pra in May the soviet Artille live Long and Prosper