Word: bagramyan
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...Nazis took too long to tire, General Ivan Bagramyan's army group, poised on the banks of the Niemen on Chern-yakhovsky's right flank, could help things along by a breakthrough from the north. On Chernyakhovsky's left, Colonel General Georgi Zakharov was reported by the Germans to be attacking in the Masurian Lakes region with hundreds of tanks and planes, behind a "drumfire of artillery" (the usual German phrase indicating a breakthrough assault...
Headed by a summer hero, General Ivan Bagramyan, the First Baltic Army seemed strong enough for the twin job. German reports put it at: 14 infantry, one artillery, two cavalry divisions, with two complete tank corps. Still larger forces were apparently massed south of Vitebsk, under Russia's famed General Konstantin Rokossovsky. Stalled for weeks by adverse weather and fierce German resistance, this Army was a tight spring that could uncoil at any moment...
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