Word: baltics
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...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...
...reduce Gorodok, the Red command used the new First Baltic Army, with its winter-trained Siberian regiments, which fought at Moscow, Stalingrad, the Don. It massed heavy artillery, tanks, planes. Then, in a heavy snowfall, the Siberians struck out from three directions...
...later, in the fields of yellowing grain near Kursk, he took part in the great and decisive summer battle, was promoted to colonel general, became one of the chosen few to wear the treasured Order of Suvorov, First Class. Six weeks ago-probably after he took over the First Baltic Army-he became a full general...
Costly Battle. The defeat virtually bankrupted the studied German policy of "the fleet in being"-a cautious hoarding of potential naval strength in safe Baltic or Norwegian bases, thus restricting the movements of Allied naval units nearly four times as strong, which had to be held near by to meet sudden sea raids. Allied tallies indicated that the Scharnhorst must have been the only German capital ship in fighting trim when she made her dash to the north. The fact that she was thrown away on a convoy-raiding mission was of itself a revealing indication of growing desperation...
...battleship, but an armored cruiser of around 12,000 tons. For the rest, aside from a few light cruisers, destroyers and torpedo boats, the German Navy's sole remaining surface threat is the aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin, never yet in action, and last reported hiding out in the Baltic port of Stettin...