Word: crimea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week. But the gains were large, and they measurably hastened the day of final victory. Paced by tanks and Cossacks (see cut), Russian columns raced across the Ukraine's rain-sodden steppes and marshlands, headed west toward the borders which the Germans crossed in 1941, south toward the Crimea...
...extreme south, a Russian column this week captured Perekop, the Crimea's bridge to the Ukraine and the Germans' last land route of escape...
...Dnieper, only more blood, battle and bafflement. The Red Army crunched through Zaporozhe, grappled fiercely for Gomel, Kiev and Melitopol, crashed through the German lines between the key cities, battered at the flank of the enemy's Dnieper loop, threatened with disaster his powerful forces in the Crimea...
...clearing of the Caucasus by an army directed by square-jawed Marshal Semion Timoshenko. Stalin hinted the victory cleared the way for an attack on the Crimea, claimed the defeat cost the Germans 20,000 dead, 3,000 prisoners...
...German bulge stretching out to Leningrad. If Vitebsk falls, the Baltic states would soon be in Russian hands. >From half a dozen points on the Dnieper, they can outflank most of the German strongholds on the Dnieper line. > From Melitopol and the Caucasus they will threaten the Crimea. > From the Crimea, if & when it falls, they will again dominate the Black Sea, and once again Germany's vassal states of Rumania and Bulgaria will be open to a direct attack...