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...bald Armenian Colonel General Ivan Bagramian and Colonel General Ivan Chernyakhobsky, a 32-year-old Jewish tank expert who helped to defend Voronezh in 1942, launched thrusts north and south of Vitebsk which bypassed that stout Nazi bastion by 15 to 25 miles. Then they closed the gap behind it, cutting off five German divisions. At week's end Stalin announced that Vitebsk was in Russian hands...
...formidable array of Red generalship that faced the Germans: Konev, Malinovsky and Zhukov in the south; Rokossovsky and Bagramian further north; Popov, Meretskov and the liberator of Leningrad, Leonid Govorov, poised for attack on the Baltic countries...
Twin Perils. In the north, Armenian General Ivan Bagramian was hacking away methodically at the Vitebsk-Mogilev line (see map, p, 27). The great German stronghold of Vitebsk was engulfed. Orsha was in danger. And at any hour, the four huge Red Armies idling in the north might roll west, crush the thinly spread forces of Field Marshals von Kluge" and von Küchler, pour into old Poland, the Baltic States...
Tough Job. If Bagramian takes Vitebsk, he will rank with other Red greats: Konstantin Rokossovsky, now inching toward Vitebsk from the under side; Nikolai Vatutin, fighting in the Kiev bulge, 350 miles to the south; Stalin's pal, Ivan Konev, long stalemated in the Dnieper bend...
...Bagramian's job will not be easy. The German command has poured tanks, aircraft, armored trains into Vitebsk...