Word: konstantine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While thrusts and counterthrusts continued in the Ukraine, the weight of the Russian attack shifted northward. There, on the fringe of the Pripet Marshes, General Konstantin Rokossovsky celebrated the first anniversary of his historic Stalingrad noose by stringing a similar noose around German-held Gomel. And from the areas farther north came new rumblings: perhaps the next big Red offensive will roll there...
...recapture Kiev, the Russian Supreme Command had picked two of its ablest field commanders: Generals Konstantin Rokossovsky and Nikolai Vatutin. Their armies arrived before Kiev in September, weary after the summer's cruel fighting. For many weeks, they stood in an arc before the city, regained strength, indifferently pounded the enemy defenses...
Kiev was the objective of Army General Konstantin Rokossovsky's powerful and mobile army, plentifully supplied with tanks and with U.S trucks...
...Army General Konstantin Rokossovsky, captor of Sevsk. This blue-eyed, blond giant is one of the Red Army's most brilliant field commanders and leading candidate for a marshal's baton (TIME, Aug. 23). His greatest personal triumph was also the greatest victory thus far in World War II: the capture of Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus and 330,000 Nazis at Stalingrad...
Outstanding among these are the historic three who fought through Stalingrad's siege and counteroffensive-Colonel General Markian Mikhailovich Popov, Army General Nicolai Fedorovich Vatutin and Army General Konstantin Rokossovsky. They, along with Colonel General Vassily Sokolovsky and Colonel General Ivan Konev, were the men chosen to command the hydra-headed counterattack on Orel and Belgorod last month. They broke the short-lived German summer offensive of 1943 and developed the battle into a Russian onslaught...