Word: bryansk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German drive on Kursk spent itself, then had launched a mighty counterattack. This quickly developed into a two-pronged offensive-actually two offensives - along a 300-mile front. One prong jabbed hard at the heels of the Germans routed at Orel, liberated hundreds of Russian villages and advanced toward Bryansk. Farther to the north, other Russian forces stabbed southwest from Vyazma toward the main Nazi base at Smolensk...
...along the front the massed strength of the Red Air Force proved a heavy factor in blasting paths through the German defenses. At Kharkov and Bryansk, the Russians reported, many German trains were destroyed from the air and more than 30 fires were started...
...Heavily gunned German blockhouses, pillboxes and fortified ravines were reduced by the famed, straight-shooting Russian artillery. Overhead U.S. and British-made bombers dropping three-and four-ton bombs cooperated with Soviet Stormoviks in attacks on enemy tank and troop concentrations and on German nerve centers at Orel and Bryansk. In a vain attempt to stem the tide, the Luftwaffe flew as many as 1,500 sorties in a single day, but the sky was full of Russian planes. The Germans could not win the air supremacy they needed...
...days they advanced 25 miles toward Orel from three directions, liberating no towns and villages. They routed five German divisions; five others "suffered a heavy defeat." By last week's end, twelve days after the counterattack began, they had pressed on past Orel, to within 35 miles of Bryansk. German communications with the Orel garrison were being pinched off (see map). For the first time in Russia, where the main forces of Germany were still engaged, the Red Army had the summer initiative. A test was under way, a victory was in sight which could mean more...
...Russia last week both the Luftwaffe and German communications centers took a beating from the Red Air Force. Russian bombing attacks were focused on the central front, in the Smolensk-Bryansk-Orel sector, where 90 Nazi divisions are concentrated. Russian bombardiers blasted, and left burning, railway depots, trains, fuel and ammunition dumps at Bryansk, Karachev, Smolensk and Roslavl, and technical and engineering supply depots at Krasni Bor. The heaviest single attack was a 520-plane blast against the big German rail and supply base of Orel. Bomb and fire damage to supply depots and railways was heavy. When the Nazis...