Word: dnieper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vinnitsa and Sarny, battles raged (see map, p. 23). More than ever, the Red Army fought for railroads. Near Vinnitsa a force under General Nikolai Vatutin kept its eye on the Odessa-Warsaw line; the Germans had to hold it to escape disaster in the Dnieper bend...
...Poland's Strong Man Josef Pilsudski sent a motley army into agonized Russia. By spring of 1920, the Poles watered their horses in the Dnieper. That May the Reds struck back...
...Marcks. The Marcks plan was to prepare a tremendous mass concentration in the Balkans, which the Russians might logically interpret as a move against Turkey. Then, without warning, the concentration could have been hurled against the Ukraine, with an ultimate wheeling turn toward Moscow up the valleys of the Dnieper and the Don. The Marcks plan would have resulted in a gigantic concentration of German strength at one point. But Hitler insisted on three large attack wedges, none of which was strong enough to win a decisive victory...
...bitter, five-day attack expelled the Germans from Berdichev, battered them back toward the next and last railway from the Ukraine into Poland. To General Ivan Konev's Second Ukrainian Army fell Kirovograd, a station on a trunk railway leading westward from the far end of the Dnieper Bend...
...their Dnieper salient, some 500,000 Germans were now in peril. Through Berdichev the Red Army hurried to choke off the salient's corridor to Poland and Rumania. By week's end General Vatutin's men were less than 65 miles from the pre-1939 Rumanian frontier. At Kirovograd and other points on the salient's rim the Red Army hacked off and trapped hunks of the enemy. The Wehrmacht had spent precious, dwindling reserves in the November-December counterdrive west of Kiev. Now the hard question facing Manstein was not whether he could hold...