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...possibly rocket platforms). The iron-muscled and iron-willed young Jewish general, Ivan Chernyakhovsky, had 150,000 men-by German count-massed on the province's eastern border. After an artillery barrage of 3,000 shells in 20 minutes, Chernyakhovsky's infantry closed in along the Kaunas-Konigsberg railroad. General Georgy Zakharov's army group also closed in over swampy ground from the south...
...attack on East Prussia, the exit gate for the German Armies in the Baltic provinces stood open. But the Nazis were in dire peril. Having carved a huge salient in Lithuania, General Bagramian was closer last week to Riga than General Chernyakhovsky, at the Suwalki triangle, was to Konigsberg. Yet a breakthrough to Riga would bring in only part of the bag. Pulling the drawstring at Konigsberg might be more difficult, but it would pay off more handsomely...
...they had known their defenses would collapse like a framework of overstrained girders at the touch of a cutting torch, why had they not pulled clear out of the Baltic countries and eastern Poland, to a shortened line from Konigsberg through Bialystok and Brest-Litovsk to Kovel...
...Vilna, they were less than 100 miles from East Prussia. If the Germans north of the gap between Vilna and Konigsberg failed to get down through it before the Russians closed it, there would be no Dunkirk, no escape by sea, for them...
...another army commanded by General Vatutin, now 59 miles inside old Poland, the objective was the Lwow-Konigsberg supply artery (see map, p. 23). Since last fall this tough tankman had severed two major north-south railroads remaining to the Germans in that area. At Lwow, he would cut the third-and last...