The German armies were now being pressed into an ever-smaller area between Falaise and Argentan, and relentlessly pounded with artillery and air strikes.
The front line belong to the men who worked there—rifle-men and machine gunners, mortarman, forward artillery observers, communications men, and medics.
The Turkish shelling, which continued into Thursday, reportedly killed several Syrian soldiers, raising the spectre of a tit-for-tat that could get out of hand.
And Iranian media say it involved gunfire and an explosion from a car that was located near the one Fakhrizadeh was traveling east of this country's capital.
REPORTER (voice-over): Heavy artillery fire and a slow-moving front line, we may be in an era of technological progress, but the Russian invasion of Ukraine seems to share many similarities with conflicts a hundred years ago.
I have been under an artillery attack for twenty-four hours and have not lost a man. The enemy has demanded our surrender. Otherwise, he said, he will kill every one of us.