Word: jelgava
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was still fight left in the Nazis. They concentrated their strength to hold a hedgehog near Jelgava (Mitau) and thus kept open a small exit for their troops from the northeast. Even after the capture of Jelgava by tankers of Lieut. General Viktor Obukov, the Germans stood their ground, backed up against the Gulf of Riga. Until the first of this week, an escape corridor was still open, with Nazis streaming through it to fight another...
Shavli, cut the railroad from Riga to Tilsit in East Prussia, and left only a one-track line through Memel as an escape route for some 30 German divisions on the Baltic fronts. Bagramian then blocked even this forlorn loophole by broadening his salient northward to the junction at Jelgava...
Until that happened, the Germans seemed to be making some belated efforts to evacuate southward; Red pilots reported bombing southbound troop trains. But the railroads were lost now. At Jelgava, the Russians were only 25 miles from the sea. The Germans were thus caught in two pockets-one between Riga and the Gulf of Finland, the other between Riga and East Prussia...
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