Word: gomel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brilliant Nazi Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt had smashed across the Dnieper at two points. He drove southward from the Gomel sector and took Chernigov, 80 miles to the northeast of the Ukraine's capital, Kiev, whence he was in excellent position to get in Kiev's rear, and complete its encirclement (see map). Even more dangerous to Russian hopes was his capture of Kremenchug, 160 miles to Kiev's southeast. From there he could launch a north eastward drive on 150-mile-distant Kharkov, the Ukraine's big railroad junction and industrial center, threaten...
Center. Over boggy terrain in the Gomel area, Lieut. General Ivan Stepanovich Konev hurled pistonlike counterattacks. Russians claimed they had stopped the Nazi drive on Moscow in its tracks. The Nazis acknowledged that Russian "new armies" had made heavy counter assaults, but insisted they had been smothered. The Red Air Force announced a bag of 500 planes for the week ending...