Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four Armies. Marshal Zhukov probably had more than 1,000,000 men massed before the Berlin sector. To the north were some 500,000 more-the armies of Marshals Alexander M. Vasilevsky and Konstantin K. Rokossovsky. which had flattened the East Prussia and Pomerania pockets. To the south, Marshal Ivan S. Konev's big First Ukrainian Army was launched to hurl itself toward Dresden. Against all this massive weight was the largest force the shredded Wehrmacht could muster: perhaps 900,000 men in formidable defense positions. But greater German forces had failed to stop the Red Army when...
Last week, U.S. editors had much bigger news to report quickly, but with far better mechanical facilities. The public was hungry for details. Said Ivan Annenberg, circulation manager of Manhattan's Daily News: "In all my years of newspapering, I have never seen papers sold so fast." Newspapermen had long since conceded radio's advantage in speed. They had almost forgotten how it felt to sell "extras." But this time it was different...
...Strong Heave? All along the broad eastern front the Russians were seemingly ready for their own last strong heave. General Andrey I. Yeremenko's Fourth Ukrainian Army inched in on Teschen and the Moravian Gap entry to the Czech industrial complex. There were rumblings of readiness from Marshals Ivan Konev's and Georgi Zhukov's fronts before Dresden and Berlin...
...Silesia stocky Marshal Ivan S. Konev's First Ukrainian Army group hammered southward from its Oder bridgehead. Konev's troops neared the gateway to the Ziegenhals Pass, and the Czechoslovakian city of Moravska Ostrava, guarding the Moravian...
...knew better than Berliners that Berlin would need all this and more. The Red Army's Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov, though striking hard, had yet to launch his hardest blows. South of Berlin, Marshal Ivan S. Konev's forces smashed from Oder bases toward the Czechoslovakian border. North of Berlin, Zhukov drove for the old Baltic port of Stettin, tried to tear loose this anchor of the Oder River line...