Word: korsun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hard-driving Vatutin himself was not there. Moscow said he was sick. But his place was taken by one of the world's topmost field generals-stocky, aggressive Marshal Georgy Zhukov, fresh from his victory at Korsun, where ten Nazi divisions met their end last month...
...Army tightened its coils around charred, desolate Korsun (see map), early this week choked the town off. In the surrounding area, the remnants of ten German divisions still fought, still hoped. But hope was running low. They were pressed in so tightly that all their airfields were under artillery fire. German transports with food and ammunition occasionally broke through with dropped deliveries, but Russian fighter pilots intercepted most of the lumbering air freighters and shot them down...
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