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...center of the new line Bradley had already exploited his speed to get a frontal offensive going, headed east. He had pushed armored and infantry columns out of Rennes to the highway junction of Laval, 148 miles from Paris. Other columns swept down from Fougères to Mayenne, 137 miles from the capital. To the south another had cut to the east...
...addition to Bialystok, the towns conquered in one day by the Red Armies were Lvov and Stanislavov in southern Poland, Dvinsk in Latvia, and Shavli, an important rail junction in Lithuania. If the Germans had been resisting as stubbornly as a year ago, any one of the five would have been deemed worth weeks of siege...
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...
...Anshan was Tangku, the port of Tientsin in northernmost China. The Monsoon was past Tangku on the way home when it was discovered that half her bomb load had stuck in the bay. A target of last resort had been specified: the airfield at Chenghsien. The nearby railway junction had already been bombed by a diversionary force of B-29s. The Monsoon knocked out the airfield control tower with its leftovers and breezed back to base...
...Author. Joseph Stanley Pennell was born in Junction City, Kansas, refuses to give his age "for Army reasons." He went to the University of Kansas, spent three years at Oxford, worked variously as newspaperman and radio announcer. He is now a second lieutenant in an antiaircraft battery stationed near San Francisco...