Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they had "stabilized" the line between the Carpathians and the Gulf of Finland, and they were in fact holding firm in front of Warsaw and East Prussia. They were clearly throwing into this theater any reinforcements they could scrape up from anywhere. Nothing more had been heard of the gap which, three weeks ago, the Germans claimed they had blasted through the Russian corridor on the Gulf of Riga (TIME, Aug. 28). If the Germans were retiring troops from Estonia and Latvia through this gap, they did not want to say so. Neither did the Russians...
...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...
...Russians and Germans fought a savage street battle. Then the city fell. The Second Ukrainian Army lunged southward through ripening wheat and corn, sent spearheads westward into the beech-clad Carpathian foothills, penetrated Hungarian-held Transylvania. At week's end it hammered past Focsani, western anchor of the Gap's defenses and a main junction on the railway to Ploesti...
...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 of the Gap...
...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...