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Marsh Job. Sending his troops slogging through the Pripet Marshes, Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky seized Pinsk, after bombarding it from gunboats sent into the Pripet River from the Dnieper. Then he started to erase the German salient in the marshes, at the base of which lay Brest-Litovsk...
...correspondents with every branch of the Red Fleet and with every army commander in the field. (At least 50 Russian press correspondents have been killed at the fronts.) And when it wants to, Pravda can draw on the best of contemporary Russian writers: Gregory Riklin, Mikhail Sholokhov, Konstantin Simonov. The staff writer best known in the U.S. is the one who has most often criticized U.S. citizens: David Iosifovich Zaslavsky, author of Pravda's recent cracks at Wendell Willkie (TIME, Jan. 17), at William Randolph Hearst for "spilling poisoned ink," at the New York Times's Military Expert...
...threat developed overnight, and grew hourly. Behind it loomed the skilled hand of dynamic, canny Konstantin Rokossovsky-the man who destroyed the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad.* Inactive for two months, "Rok" last week hurled into battle a force estimated by Berlin at 100,000, captured Rogachev...
...Hard-driving General Konstantin Rokossovsky had pushed 40 miles west across the Pripet Marshes. This week he was 24 miles from Old Poland...
...Pripet Marshes, the puncher was Russia's famed General Konstantin Rokossovsky. For weeks, he had been massing white-painted tanks, artillery, ski troops, cavalry, aircraft. Great strength, he knew, was needed, for the terrain was cruel, the roads few, the enemy defenses thick...