Eastern front remains static
16th April 1942: The warming Spring weather still does not allow two vast armies to resume hostilities
Just as the autumn ‘rasputitsa’ had brought delays to the final German thrusts of 1941 so now the spring rasputitsa - time without roads or seasonal quagmire - brought a relative lull in the offensive operations on the Eastern fron…
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