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...General Vatutin's men fell Berdichev, a manufacturing center and traffic junction, once the headquarters of Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein's South Russia Command. A 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...
...danger was still greater in the south. There Nikolai Vatutin's army of half a million men had torn a 200-mile gap in the lines of Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein, and was now racing into the pages of history with furious momentum...
Junker's Life. In this dark hour of defeat by the despised Slav, Fritz Erich von Manstein must have longed to shut his eyes to the dreary, hostile scene and think of friendly Ostelbien: of the small estate of impoverished Prussian Artillery General von Lewinski, whose tenth child he was; of the Castle of Colonel Baron Georg von Manstein, who adopted Erich von Lewinski when his father died...
...years at Chicago, Stagg won 273 games, lost 142. On his teams played such alltime greats as Walter Eckersall, Fritz Crisler and Hugo Bezdek. Stagg used the first tackling dummy (an old mattress), originated the end-around play, the tackle back shift, was the first to use the hidden-ball principle. He developed the shift, which later became the mainspring of the Rockne system, and Rockne credited his offense to Stagg...
...Fritz, USNR, who for several months served as Night Lookout Training Instructor at NTS (Communications), was recently detached from the school and has reported for other Navy duty...