Word: belgorod
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blow is aimed in two directions-at Kursk from the area south of Orel, and from the Belgorod direction northward, also in the direction of Kursk. . . . It is sufficient to glance at the map to understand the operative plan of the German command. It envisaged the encirclement and annihilation of our troops along the arc of the Kursk salient...
Moscow said that the Germans used six panzer divisions (200 tanks each), a motorized division, and seven infantry divisions in the opening attacks from Orel; five regular tank divisions, four smaller armored divisions (150 tanks each), and seven infantry divisions in the attacks from Belgorod-where the Russians made their only admissions of sustained German gains. In an aside to the U.S. and Britain, Moscow also said that the Germans had transferred, two bomber fleets and one night-fighter fleet from Western Europe...
...Wehrmacht attacked all the way from Orel to Belgorod, on a front of 200 miles, in areas where both armies had been concentrating troops for weeks...
...Force concentrated on the sectors where the Russians evidently spotted the heaviest German concentrations-on the central front, bombing such communication centers as Bryansk, Minsk, Dniepropetrovsk, Kremenchug, Belgorod, Orel. Moscow claimed that 930 German planes had been destroyed or damaged...
Captain Ludwig Sertorius, military commentator for the German Transocean News Service, said: "The German counteroffensive has shifted . . . in harmony with the general trend of fighting into the northern direction." Having retaken Kharkov, having consolidated positions on the western bank of the Donets, the German efforts crept to the Belgorod Sector, 45 miles north of Kharkov, to the Kursk sector, 120 miles north, to the Bryansk sector, 250 miles northwest of Kharkov. Smolensk is 145 miles northwest of Bryansk...