Word: galati
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...Iron Gate, where the Danube flows between 200-foot piles of sandstone, some of Tito's men battled to join Red armymen who had come from the Ukraine, through Bessarabia, through the Galati Gap, through the heart of Rumania at breakneck pace. To the east, General Feodor I. Tolbukhin's Third Ukraine Army was mopping up Nazi stragglers on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast. To the north, General Rodion Malinovsky was stabbing through the Transylvanian Alps to the great plain of Hungary...
...action began along a 156-mile front -the mouth of a funnel narrowing into the Galati Gap, where 45 miles of Danubian plain, marsh and delta separate the mountains from the sea. On the Gap's farther side stretch the fat grain fields of Rumania, the high roads to Ploesti's oil, and the strategic plains of Hungary...
...seat of Bessarabia, was stormed. Below the city the Russians closed a noose around 60,000 Germans. Then the Third Ukrainian sped down the coast. At week's end it stood deep within the sprawling, muddy Danube Delta, held the old Turkish fortress town of Ismail, swept into Galati, eastern anchor...
...anniversary exultant with victory, jubilant with the hope that the war was nearing its end as the Allies harried the Germans through France, the Russians smashed through the Galati Gap and Hitler's Balkan outworks began to crumble. It was also a moment for glancing at the war's score...
...along, made history by bombing Rumanian targets and then going on into Russia, where they landed at bases arranged at the Teheran Conference. Last week they made more history by running off the first U.S. bombing raid from Russian soil-a heavy strike at the Rumanian Danube port of Galati...