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First to the Sea? In front of East Prussia and of Warsaw to the south, the Germans had four main bastions: Kaunas and Grodno on the Niemen River, Bialystok and Brest-Litovsk. Brilliant young General Ivan Chernyakovsky reached the Niemen on a 75-mile front, forced several crossings, established bridgeheads on the west bank, attacked Grodno. Early this week his army was joined there by that of General Georg Zakharov, and Grodno fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: The Germans Squealed . . . | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

...they had known their defenses would collapse like a framework of overstrained girders at the touch of a cutting torch, why had they not pulled clear out of the Baltic countries and eastern Poland, to a shortened line from Konigsberg through Bialystok and Brest-Litovsk to Kovel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: The Face of Disaster | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

...north, Marshal Bagramian began an encirclement of Dvinsk in Latvia. To the south, Marshal Rokossovsky captured the key junction of Baranovichi, whose railroads lead to Vilna, Bialystok and Brest-Litovsk. In the treacherous Pripet Marshes, other Rokossovsky forces skirted the bogs along road and rail embankments, captured Luninets and attacked Pinsk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: The Face of Disaster | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

...Soviet crunch reached far behind Minsk and cut the railroad to Vilna; the lower jaw snapped the trunk line to Warsaw near Baranowicze. Minsk fell, trapping an estimated 150,000 more Germans. Swarms of Red bombers blasted the roads to Vilna and Koenigsberg, to Bialystok and Brest-Litovsk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Mincemeat at Minsk | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

...Cherbourg maneuver might be repeated, with Allied forces striking away from German strength to cut off the Brittany peninsula, and seize the ports of Brest, Lorient and St. Nazaire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF FRANCE: Meeting in Normandy | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

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