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...Army's technique of taking bastioned cities by complex, encircling attacks. As they had at Budapest, the two big armies of Marshals Fedor I. Tolbukhin and Rodion Y. Malinovsky struck swiftly at the sides. Cossack horsemen slashed into the eastern approaches after crossing the Morava River. From a flotilla of small boats on the Danube, Red raiders leapfrogged ashore at night to attack from the rear. Infantrymen infiltrated the green Vienna Woods to the west, slammed over the main roads, then cut swiftly to the Danube, north of the city. Vienna was almost surrounded. Then the Russians burst through...
...Tolbukhin, the bull-like, flower-loving Ferdinand of the Red Army, sent the 60 generals of his Third Ukrainian Army group forward. By their side moved 27 generals of Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's Second Ukrainian Army group and a Red Fleet Rear Admiral of the Danube Flotilla. Along a 90-mile front, from Lake Balaton to the Danube, 1,000,000 Russians were on the march. Others stormed over the Hron River north of the Danube...
...hundreds of Micronesian natives against whom the U.S. had no grudge. So U.S. warships recently steamed at night into Wotje lagoon, defying thousands of hate-filled withering Japs. Native guides who had escaped and promoted the rescue attempt were sent ashore to wake the sleeping villagers. Soon a weird flotilla of outrigger canoes was paddled to the warships. More than 700 natives were taken aboard, with their poultry and pigs. The Japs were left on the vine...
Part of this achievement was in the resounding Second Battle of the Philippine Sea, just ended, in which Mitscher-men had shared with battleships, cruisers, destroyers and PT boats the additional credit for: ¶ Sinking 24 Jap warships (two battle ships, four carriers, nine cruisers, three flotilla leaders, six destroyers) ; ¶ Damaging 34 to 37 (seven battleships, ten to 13 cruisers, 17 destroyers...
After two hours, she lay on her side and went down quietly. After another hour, a smaller carrier went down. Yet another of the same (Titose) class was sunk by air attack. One of the Zuiho class was polished off by cruiser gunfire, and so was a destroyer flotilla leader. A damaged cruiser was knocked out during the night by a lurking submarine. Both battleships in the force were damaged...