Word: khersones
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Rodion Malinovsky's army was pushing westward from Kherson. It was a "grudge" army of Stalingrad veterans, out for the blood of the Sixth German Army, which they had once destroyed and which had since been reactivated...
General Rodion Malinovsky's Army splashed into Kherson and on toward Nikolayev after a spectacular overnight thrust. In the flooded plain, the cavalry bore the brunt of battle. Shrewdly, Malinovsky sent a myriad of raiding units-a tank or two, tommy gunners, horsemen-into the steppe to sow panic. They did their job well: Moscow said nowhere was chaos greater than in this sector...
This week a fourth Army-presumably General Feodor Tolbukhin's-crossed the lower Dnieper, struck beyond Kherson. Said Moscow in jubilation: the defeat was becoming a catastrophe...
...Freed the Dnieper, save for a tiny German foothold at Kherson...
...Kherson, 640 miles to the south, the Germans withdrew from their bridgehead on the south bank of the frozen Dnieper...