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Tough Job. If Bagramian takes Vitebsk, he will rank with other Red greats: Konstantin Rokossovsky, now inching toward Vitebsk from the under side; Nikolai Vatutin, fighting in the Kiev bulge, 350 miles to the south; Stalin's pal, Ivan Konev, long stalemated in the Dnieper bend...
...summer hero, General Ivan Bagramyan, the First Baltic Army seemed strong enough for the twin job. German reports put it at: 14 infantry, one artillery, two cavalry divisions, with two complete tank corps. Still larger forces were apparently massed south of Vitebsk, under Russia's famed General Konstantin Rokossovsky. Stalled for weeks by adverse weather and fierce German resistance, this Army was a tight spring that could uncoil at any moment...
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...