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Then, like a volcano blowing off its top, the whole Russian line exploded in a huge arc of gunfire. Wily, broad-jawed Marshal Ivan Stepanovich Konev had touched off the greatest mass artillery shoot ever staged for a Russian attack...
Along every mile of the 25-mile sector he had chosen to smash, Marshal Konev had lined 300 to 400 guns-long-barreled giants, stubby, deep-throated howitzers, crackling light fieldpieces. On row upon row of U.S.-made trucks were batteries of Katushas, the rocket-projecting pride of Soviet artillerymen...
...five months of quiet. A wide belt of mines protected it, and along it were earthworks and pillboxed guns-25 to 40 of them to each mile. The Katushas and guns spoke again. Flamethrowers spat at the strong points until their timbered linings blazed. By dusk on Saturday Marshal Konev knew that he had what he wanted: a definite break through the deep German line...
Road to Silesia. On Saturday night Moscow broke out its own fire for the first time in many weeks. Twenty salvos from 224 guns saluted Konev's offensive. Marshal Stalin hailed an initial victory-an advance of 25 miles on the sector 100 miles south of Warsaw...
...threat was triple: Chernyakhovsky's forces aimed at the East Prussian border; Rokossovsky's and Zakharov's forces aimed directly west toward Berlin, but could swing north to envelop East Prussia, or north and south to envelop Warsaw; Konev's huge bridgehead on the upper Vistula pointed at Cracow and German Silesia. Most of the surface activity last week was in the Balkans, but the great drive had passed from the explosive to the mopping-up stage. The noises from Berlin betrayed well-grounded anxiety about the sectors north of the Carpathians, the direct menace...