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...addition to Bialystok, the towns conquered in one day by the Red Armies were Lvov and Stanislavov in southern Poland, Dvinsk in Latvia, and Shavli, an important rail junction in Lithuania. If the Germans had been resisting as stubbornly as a year ago, any one of the five would have been deemed worth weeks of siege...
...Dvinsk alone, nine German supply and troop trains were smashed and burned. Exploding ammunition dumps, touched off by Red bombers, spread fires and ruin. Tottering back on Warsaw, German troops were strafed on the roads by attack planes, medium bombers and fighters: among them were U.S.-built, Russian-manned Airacobras, Bostons and cannon-carrying Mitchells...
General Zakharov's army overran Volkovysk, a junction on the railroad to Bialystok. General Ivan Bagramian reached far to the west of Dvinsk (still in Wehrmacht hands last week), found himself about 100 miles from the Gulf of Riga...
...north, Marshal Bagramian began an encirclement of Dvinsk in Latvia. To the south, Marshal Rokossovsky captured the key junction of Baranovichi, whose railroads lead to Vilna, Bialystok and Brest-Litovsk. In the treacherous Pripet Marshes, other Rokossovsky forces skirted the bogs along road and rail embankments, captured Luninets and attacked Pinsk...
Riga: ree ga Dvinsk: dvinsk...