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...Clamp. The millions of Berliners who could not fight, those who did not want to fight now that doom was on the doorstep, milled in panic. They surged to the Ringbahn, fought each other to get on the last trains to anywhere. They massed in the air-raid shelters, choked the Unter-grundbahn platforms and tracks. Stunned, they huddled wherever they could find shelter and waited...
Zhukov's men did not wait. Like a multi-toothed clamp, the Red Army sent piercing thrusts into the outer districts, tightening the pressure all around. Suddenly the Russians were everywhere in the ring of industrial districts and workers' suburbs to the north and east. The first deep piercings were among the wreckage of the rows of dark, ugly brick and stone houses of Wreissensee and Pankow. Here had lived the hundreds of thousands of Berliners who had known the kicks and cuffs of the little Nazi bosses. These were Berlin's onetime centers of Socialism...
...less than two weeks General Chernyakhovsky and Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky had done what Russian armies in 1914 failed to do: clamp a bear hug on the province of East Prussia. Chernyakhovsky had struck from the east and north, Rokossovsky from the southeast. They ripped through historic forests, the hunting grounds of the Kaisers, through cities rich in Prussian military lore-Tilsit, Gumbinnen, Tannenberg, Allenstein...
Soon military security would clamp down on the President's movements again. He and the U.S. would get back to their main business-winning...
...victorious trend of the fight for Leyte Island, whose capture will give U.S. Army forces a strong clamp on the mid-Philippines, did not change last week. But the complexion of the fight was altered considerably. The Japs stiffened, and they brought in help from other bases. It looked as though U.S. communiqué writers had been overconfident again...