Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marsh Job. Sending his troops slogging through the Pripet Marshes, Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky seized Pinsk, after bombarding it from gunboats sent into the Pripet River from the Dnieper. Then he started to erase the German salient in the marshes, at the base of which lay Brest-Litovsk...
Confusion in the German High Command brought a confusing week to 68-year-old Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, German Supreme Commander in the west. First he received the Oak Leaves to the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, with a double-talk citation for "preventing the deployment of the enemy bridgehead into a battle of three fronts." Then he lost...
...stopped on the beaches nor hurled back into the sea by the man specifically picked for the job 27 months ago; 2) despite his high professional standing, Rundstedt had long been considered politically unsound from the Nazi point of view; 3) he and his field commander, the Nazi favorite Marshal Erwin Rommel, had disagreed sharply on tactics...
Adolf's Choice. Rundstedt's unenviable place in the west was taken over by Field Marshal Gunther von Kluge, a slow-moving, 61-year-old officer who had done some fair to good defensive fighting in Russia up to last autumn. A Junker himself, dour Kluge, whom German soldiers call "Melancholy Baby," is a commander of considerably less standing than Rundstedt, may give Marshal Rommel a freer hand...
...101st Airborne: Brigadier General Maxwell D. Taylor, 42-year-old West Pointer, best known for his dangerous mission to Rome to negotiate armistice details with Marshal Badoglio just before the landing at Salerno...