Word: breakthrough
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berlin, the Wehrmacht's spokesman addressed the correspondents: "I am sorry I have to announce a Russian breakthrough on the German front...
...success at Yuyangkwan could be further exploited, the Japanese position was not enviable. The bulk of their strength, estimated at several divisions, was concentrated on the northern flank for a breakthrough, presumably against the western outlet of the Yangtze gorges. Now this concentration, outflanked, its rear threatened, would either have to achieve that break-through within a minimum of time, or retreat...
...northern retreat began in the Demyansk swamps south of Lake Ilmen, where Marshal Semion Timoshenko climaxed an offensive with a great breakthrough (TIME, March 8). For 18 months the Germans had clung doggedly to the western part of the swamp area. In the warm months these marshlands form one of the best natural barriers in Russia. Last year this barrier served the Germans; this year it will serve the Red Army and hamper any German counteroffensive in the north. Winter's freeze made the swamps passable, and Timoshenko used the waning weeks of winter to smash through so fast...
...days after Timoshenko's breakthrough, the Russians won an even bigger victory-the capture of Rzhev. It was from Rzhev, 140 miles northwest of Moscow, that the Germans began the powerful drive on Russia's capital in the autumn of 1941 which almost landed Adolf Hitler inside the Kremlin. It was the city which, above all others, Hitler had to hold if he hoped to try again...
Probably the most fascinating speaker from the standpoint of general interest will be Donald R. MacAfee, due to lecture on sabotage on November 3. Present at the German breakthrough in Belgium in 1940, he punctuates his his talks with graphic descriptions of the flight into northern France of hundreds of thousands of Belgian refugees...