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...east Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky split land communications between Danzig and Gdynia and was closing a double set of prongs on the two cities. Farther east Marshal Alexander Mikhailovich Vasilevsky, 47-year-old Cossack, took Braunsberg, one-time stronghold of the Teutonic Knights...
Behind Zhukov the armies of the Second and Third White Russian Fronts hammered down the resistance pockets the Germans had left in East Prussia and the Polish Corridor. They took the town of Brandenburg on the east and neared Braunsberg on the west sides of the pocket below Konigsberg. In twin battles to the west they fought for the ports of Danzig and Gdynia...
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