Word: kremenchug
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Cities and countryside alike had been devastated. Fischer found Poltava and Kremenchug "worse than Berlin," his previous superlative of destruction. Kharkov was almost as bad. The great Donbas industrial basin was one wide ruin. Rural areas were little better...
...Kiev and Melitopol in September, the Wehrmacht rushed precious reserves of men and tanks to these points over strained and inadequate railroads and highways. The Russians saw their opportunity, struck between the two cities at the soft top of the Dnieper bulge (see map), won a small bridgehead below Kremenchug...
Berlin has made it plain that the Wehrmacht hopes to hold on to the Dnieper Line (see map). In the two weeks which followed the loss of Smolensk, it has yielded only Kremenchug. At some points the front is still as much as 40 miles east of Hitler's defense wall. Yet the Russian pressure is immense. Early this week, most of the bastions of this line-Vitebsk, Mogilev, Gomel, Kiev, Melitopol-were in danger...
...Force concentrated on the sectors where the Russians evidently spotted the heaviest German concentrations-on the central front, bombing such communication centers as Bryansk, Minsk, Dniepropetrovsk, Kremenchug, Belgorod, Orel. Moscow claimed that 930 German planes had been destroyed or damaged...
...terrain from Chernigov to Kiev is marshy; that from Kremenchug is muddy. How much would marsh and mud help the Russians, hinder the Nazis...