Soviet railway sabotage intensifies

15th August 1943: The middle of a month of sustained Partisan operations to disrupt the German supply lines in Russia

A Wehrmacht train derailed somewhere on the Eastern front.

Before the war, the Red Army had devoted considerable thought to how they would conduct operations ‘behind the lines’ in the event of an invasion. It was anticipated that an invader from the west would likely penetrate at least 100 kilometres into Soviet territory before they might be contained. …