Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twice before the Allied Command had planned a flanking blow. In mid-September all was ready to strike at Rome with airborne troops. The men were already in their planes when Marshal Pietro Badoglio withdrew pledged support, compelled the Allies to give up the operation...
...Marshal Tito's Yugoslav Partisans checked several German offensives and, at some points, again went over to the offensive. Last week they recaptured Jajce, Tito's capital in Western Bosnia...
...defenses anchored on lakes and swamps; then crossed the Volkhov River over shattered ice and the flotsam & jetsam of a bridge the Germans blew up. Moscow's claim: 15,000 Germans killed, 3,000 captured. Last week the armies of Meretzkov and Govorov threatened to make mincemeat of Marshal von Küchler's battered forces...
...they have complete information about Germany's forces (at least 300 well-trained, well-equipped, well-led divisions of German troops, perhaps 100 "satellite" divisions of variable quality and fighting spirit). Allied staffmen, planning invasion, must assume that an unknown number of "hidden reserves" is available to Field Marshal Erwin ("The Fox") Rommel, recently appointed to direct the overall defenses of Europe, and to Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, apparently still commander in the threatened west...
...Tukhachevsky later became Vice Commissar of Defense, was shot as a traitor in the purge of 1937. Budenny was made Marshal, today trains reserves...