Word: kolberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian blasts had ripped through Pomerania's roads and rails, cutting off perhaps 200,000 German troops in the 8,200-plus square mile area east of Kolberg. Zhukov had trebled German trouble...
Zhukov had apparently caught the enemy by surprise at a point where he had no deep defenses. Russian tank rumbled straight north, covered 62 miles in four days and came up to the Baltic dunes near Kolberg. Zhukov had timed his drive with a Baltic-bound thrust of Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky; the timing was perfect. Rokossovsky's forces simultaneously burst into Koslin, 24 miles east of Kolberg, then fanned out eastward more than 20 miles along...