Word: belgorod
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...signature) find the account of the invasion* (TIME, July 19) of Sicily (see map, p. 26) and the battles ... of Belgorod (TIME, July 19), Orel (TIME, Aug. 2) and the Donets River (see p. jo) difficult to read (see cut, col. 2). . . . Smoothness (in writing) is a desirable quality (see Books...
...fought through Stalingrad's siege and counteroffensive-Colonel General Markian Mikhailovich Popov, Army General Nicolai Fedorovich Vatutin and Army General Konstantin Rokossovsky. They, along with Colonel General Vassily Sokolovsky and Colonel General Ivan Konev, were the men chosen to command the hydra-headed counterattack on Orel and Belgorod last month. They broke the short-lived German summer offensive of 1943 and developed the battle into a Russian onslaught...
...Also killed in action, near Belgorod, was General Joseph Apanasenko, until last spring chief of the Soviet Army in the Far East...
...From Belgorod the second prong, led by tanks and motorized columns, slashed southwestward to push swiftly across the flat steppes northwest of Kharkov. The speed was so great in some sectors that the Germans abandoned much heavy equipment in the flight. Some mobile units raced to within 16 miles of Kharkov, one encircled several Nazi garrisons. A powerful secondary drive starting from Chuguev, 25 miles southeast of Kharkov, threatened a new pincers squeeze on the Ukrainian stronghold...
...capture of 12,418 German officers and men, 621 tanks, 875 guns, 2,521 machine guns, 325 supply dumps. Not listed in the communiqués, but of great value to the Soviet Union, was the recovery of the direct rail link between Moscow, Tula, Orel, Kursk and Belgorod. Russian losses were heavy, too, but relatively lighter than in previous summer campaigns, especially as they were incurred in a successful advance...