Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Marshal Stalin announced that Red Army units had reached the Elbe at Mühlberg - 30 miles northwest of Dresden and almost due east of Leipzig. Technically this was not a junction, since the U.S. positions on the Elbe were farther north. But at least the two Allies had reached the banks of the same river...
...Marshal Zhukov's First White Russian Army smashed into Berlin last week (see below). The Paris radio blabbed that the U.S. and Red Army patrols had already made contact near Dresden...
...southeastern front, Marshal Malinovsky was gathering momentum for a push into Bohemia, and south of Bohemia Marshal Tolbukhin was thrusting along the Danube toward Linz. If Tolbukhin can meet the U.S. Third and Seventh Armies in the Danube valley, perhaps between Linz and Regensburg, then Bohemia (and the war industries of Prague and Pilsen) will be cut off from the Nazis' Alpine bastion...
Thus, in a 70-mile arc of flame and steel, had the soldiers of Red Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov, Stalin's designated conqueror of Berlin, come up to the outskirts of the Nazi capital. They had left behind, on the roads and fields back to Küstrin and Schwedt, thousands of dead German soldiers, more thousands of prisoners, hills of wreckage. In five days they had fought through five defense belts, smashing down a great concentration of enemy tanks in what may have been the war's biggest battle of armor. Now they could pierce the heart...
...Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey Jr., bellicose Third Fleet commander, let out one of his periodic anti-Jap bellows, this time for punishment of "all Japs guilty of war crimes without respect for rank or position." Paying his particular respects to Field Marshal Juichi Terauchi, "the beast ... in command during the death march of our prisoners on Bataan," he proposed: "For every one of our men who was murdered, officially or otherwise, a Jap officer two ranks higher should suffer the death penalty...