Word: konev
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...outstanding Soviet success of the week was achieved below Warsaw on the Vistula, where wily, leathery Marshal Konev captured the important rail town of Sandomierz, destroyed the Nazi garrison of three divisions, enlarged his bridgehead across the Vistula to 1,600 square miles. Adolf Hitler was said to have called Konev's position "a pistol pointed at the German empire...
...spokesman said that Warsaw was one of those places "which have to be captured from all sides." Last week Marshal Rokossovsky's army group gained ground north of the city, in attacks toward the Warsaw-Bialystok railroad. Some 100 miles to the south, in sweltering hot weather, Marshal Konev fought off repeated German tank and infantry attacks, developed a huge salient across the Vistula, from which a northward drive toward Warsaw might roll up the Germans on the west bank...
Lvov, the greatest rail city of southeastern Poland, was taken by wily, egg-bald Marshal Konev, commanding the First Ukrainian Army in place of Marshal Zhukov, who had gone to Moscow to be Stalin's deputy commander in chief. On the rail line to Cracow, Konev stormed Przemysl and Jaroslav. At Przemsyl he was 180 miles from the Silesian corner of Germany...
...forward observation post in the south, where the stench of high explosives and of the dead defiled the delicate scent of apple blossoms, leathery, bullet-headed Marshal Ivan Konev last week briefed his commanders. He spoke of the new power of the Red Air Force and of its first function: close, devoted support of troops on the ground. Almost as he spoke, swarms of Stormomks skimmed over the apple trees to blast the German troops, gun positions and tanks...
...tired, thinning Luftwaffe fought back, but feebly. A Moscow communique claimed 128 German planes shot down in one day. What the air attack had done to blast the way for Konev's tanks and infantry was another story...