Word: insterburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gumbinnen was an incident in the blows of the hammer swung by Marshal Ivan Chernyakhovsky on Insterburg, north and east of Rokossovsky's sickle. Through the snows that covered the wooded Junker estates the Russians met furious resistance, ground it down by sheer weight. In Gumbinnen, every house had to be taken. There was a reason: seven of every ten German defenders were men born in East Prussia. There most of them died...
...army group from the east, on a line north of the Masurian Lakes. The honor went to the Third White Russian Army group, commanded by 37-year-old tank expert General Ivan D. Chernyakhovsky. The Third drove in from the east on a 25-mile front along the Kaunas-Insterburg Railroad. Then the Second White Russian Army group under Colonel General Georgi F. Zakharov struck from the Narew River in the south and the First Baltic Army group of Armenian General Ivan K. Bagramian pushed in from the north near Tilsit. In 1914 the Russians had thrown 25 divisions into...
Head-On for Königsberg. Last week there was little news of the attacks from the north and the south. But by Berlin's own admission Chernyakhovsky's armor, smashing head-on toward Insterburg and Königsberg. the capital, was making progress. With what Berlin called fighting "at white heat" the attack from the east swept over the border town of Eydtkau...
...modern border of East Prussia. The Germans admitted evacuating Tauroggen last week, as General Ivan Chernyakhovsky's army, which had long threatened the province from the east, now crowded close in the north. Red bombs rained on the East Prussian junction town of Tilsit, whose railroads lead to Insterburg and Königsberg...
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