Word: korosten
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...days Vatutin's men had advanced 60-odd miles, captured 2,000 villages and towns. Korosten and Zhitomir, lately taken and lost, had been retaken. Berdichev, the bustling Jewish town once used by Manstein for his headquarters, was in danger. This week Vatutin pushed back the enemy, forced his way across Russia's Polish threshold...
...command would give him no respite. At high cost, Russian troops pressed across the river, struck blows so well dispersed that Manstein's thin reserves could not plug all holes. Zhitomir and Korosten fell. It was then that Manstein again displayed his tactical brilliance...
...recapture the important rail station of Korosten, the German Command reportedly boosted its forces in the sector by eight fresh tank divisions. Moscow claimed that during the last month in this and other battles west of Kiev the enemy had lost 800 tanks...
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