Word: fedorer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Near Kharkov, 400 miles to the north, Field Marshal Fedor von Bock's tight teams of planes, tanks, guns and men punched a dent, then tried to hack a great pocket in Marshal Semion Timoshenko's defenses. Eventually, if the Nazi plan worked, the pocket would become an ever-enlarging fissure...
Since Marshal Timoshenko's old opponent, Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, had the advantage of opening the attack, it meant little that the Russians were outnumbered at first. What did loom darkly were the successive indications of the Moscow dispatches: first the censors allowed a guess that Bock was testing Timoshenko's "remaining manpower," then a reference to advancing Nazi forces, finally the outright statement from Moscow that the Germans had the advantage in numbers of men, tanks, planes. Thus Berlin, was probably telling the truth in a communique claiming the recapture of a, bridgehead between the Donets...
TIME cover jinx still seems to be working. Latest casualties: Husband Kimmel, Fedor von Bock...
...maintaining a double offensive against Moscow and the Caucasus. More recently, since the failure of his Russian designs, Hitler had proposed a turnabout invasion of Britain. This had been opposed by all his top commanders, all proud veterans of Germany's aristocratic military caste-Field Marshals von Brauchitsch, Fedor von Bock, Ritter Wilhelm von Leeb, Gerd von Rundstedt. They had now been dismissed or had "resigned" or were "gravely ill." The self-proclaimed Oberste Befehlshaber was left to carry on with the support of such latecomers to the military aristocracy as Chief of Operations General Alfred Jodl, Inspector General...
...offensive begun on Oct. 2 had cracked them wide open. On Oct. 15 and 16 they had considered the capital lost. Then came the organization of fresh reserves and civilian defenders, the temporary stabilization of the front 50 miles from Moscow in mid-November. On Nov. 16 Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, indifferent to the cost-in-blood (TIME, Dec. 8), flung his armored divisions against Moscow for a second time. He succeeded in driving two long battle tracks into the country about Moscow, as if to pinch it off from the rear...