Word: bryansk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Force concentrated on the sectors where the Russians evidently spotted the heaviest German concentrations-on the central front, bombing such communication centers as Bryansk, Minsk, Dniepropetrovsk, Kremenchug, Belgorod, Orel. Moscow claimed that 930 German planes had been destroyed or damaged...
...shifted . . . in harmony with the general trend of fighting into the northern direction." Having retaken Kharkov, having consolidated positions on the western bank of the Donets, the German efforts crept to the Belgorod Sector, 45 miles north of Kharkov, to the Kursk sector, 120 miles north, to the Bryansk sector, 250 miles northwest of Kharkov. Smolensk is 145 miles northwest of Bryansk...
LONDON--Russian troops have captured more than 40 inhabited places in a single day in their two-pronged drive on Smolensk, have killed 5,500 Germans in three days in a ferocious battle north of Bryansk and are holding firm along their Donets River front in the south, the Russian Monday midnight communique reported today...
West of Kursk, where the snow was still deep, the Russians still pushed ahead. One column drove to within 25 miles of the Bryansk-Kiev railway, which links the German armies in the Ukraine with those on the northern front. If this drive between the fronts succeeds in cutting that line, the Russians will have made it less easy for the Germans to shift forces laterally from south to north. That would hamper the Germans in their effort to counterattack eventually in the north as they did last week in the south...
...BATTLEFIELDS OF VYAZMA BRYANSK FAR BEHIND FRONT...