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SUPPLIES FOR OFFENSIVE MOTOR-DRIVEN SLEDGES (10 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 8. The German public is being told to-day of Marshal Zhukov’s “secret weapon,” which enabled him to drive huge Russian armies 300 miles in three weeks without serious supply difficulties, says The Times’ correspondent in Stockholm. The weapon consisted of swarms of propeller-driven motor sledges which do not need roads but are capable of gliding over almost any ground -where ski men are able to go, which means virtually everywhere. The whole contraption, apart from a simple motor to rotate the propeller, is very primitive. It has merely two parallel connected runners, such as every horse-owning peasant uses during the Russian winters. It is able to keep pace with any army and carries light or heavy loads.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21633, 9 February 1945, Page 3
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