Word: dniester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...northwest along the Carpathians. On the wrong side of this front, isolated clusters of German troops continued to fight. Moscow reported that five Nazi divisions had been destroyed above Odessa. At Tarnopol the embattled garrison was being whittled down. In the forests near Skala ("Rock") on the middle Dniester, Red units battled the detachments of 15 Nazi divisions...
When Zhukov broke through the Bug line a month ago, the whole German line began to fall back. Zhukov knew he could not encircle a force retreating twelve to 18 miles a day, decided to outrace it. He seized its roads, rail centers, Dniester bridgeheads by quick penetrations, straddled the few good retreat routes across a muddy, wooded flatland...
...Prut was Czarist Russia's boundary with Rumania. In 1918 Rumania received Bessarabia as a reward for joining the Allies, pushed the frontier back to the Dniester, where it remained until...
...Eighth Infantry and First Tank Armies wiped up between the Bug and the Dniester...
...broad estuaries of the big rivers. Marshal Zhukov, at the northern end of the Ukrainian front, had done very well by breaking through with heavy concentrations of guns and tanks into Bucovina. But Konev, in the center, had pushed farthest. He had already crossed the Bug and the Dniester. This week his army held a 50-mile front along the sandy Prut river, nowhere wider than 300 yards...