The Luftwaffe, in a comparatively narrow section of the eastern front, destroyed 100 Russian tanks, said D.N.B. The total number of tanks destroyed on the entire front yesterday had not yet been determined, it was reported.
D.N-B. said that a Red destroyer hit a mine in the eastern Baltic and sank.
One German storm detachment in an unspecified sector of the German-Soviet front during comparatively brief hand-to-hand fighting killed several hundred Russians and captured: several thousand others, said DNB.
The news agency said German army units penetrated Soviet positions after terrific fighting and destroyed 480 Russian tanks in one section of the eastern front alone. The location and time of the battle were not revealed.
Despite tough Russian resistance. said DNB, the German army, through its incomparable infantry and storm troopers, supported by pioneers and artillery units as well as panzer forces has deeply penetrate ed Russian border positions, said DNB. The news agency said that German losses were "unusually small during all the battles."
The Luftwaffe dispersed Soviet armoured forees placed ready for battle, the news agency also said.
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