The Russians tabulate some statistics, too, of British convoys to Archangel through the Barents Sea. British convoys must sail through icy waters, under heavy U-boat and Luftwaffe attack, to deliver this materiel. The merchant ship sailors who man these vessels receive no thanks or reward from Russia for 50 years, when the Boris Yeltsin government approves a medal for the convoy veterans. The Soviet advance from Moscow grinds on, capturing another town. In the Crimea, Soviet marines in black coats battle Germans amid -20 Celsius temperatures.
Wounded men freeze and die where they fall.
The Germans are forced to break off attacks on Sevastopol to deal with this threat. In Ottawa, Winston Churchill faces the press, and is asked about Yugoslavia, where partisans, Germans, Italians, and Nazi puppet troops are chasing each other round the mountains. They are fighting with the greatest vigor and on quite a large scale, and we don't hear very much of what is going on there. It is all very terrible. Guerilla warfare and the most frightful atrocities by the Germans and Italians, and every kind of torture, but the people keep the flag flying.