How American Telephone Wire Connected Every Soviet Command Post to Victory
Автор: Relive The War
Загружено: 2025-12-07
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Описание: August 12, 1941. Smolensk, Soviet Union. Captain Viktor Petrov crouched in a shell crater west of the city, watching German tanks advance across the wheat fields while the field telephone beside him sat silent and useless. The wire had been cut somewhere between his position and regiment headquarters, 3 kilometers back. No communication, no orders, no artillery support. His company of 147 men faced encirclement because a single strand of copper wire no thicker than a pencil had been severed by shrapnel, enemy action, or perhaps just the weight of retreating vehicles rolling over it for the hundredth time. Petrov had sent two runners. Neither returned. The German advance continued. At 14:23 hours, he ordered retreat without authorization, without coordination, without knowing if adjacent units were holding or falling back. His company survived. Three neighboring companies did not, caught in a pincer movement that proper communications might have prevented.
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