Word: masurian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...possible. Rokossovsky, striking swiftly, enveloped the Germans with the bear's left arm. It reached the Baltic 43 miles southwest of Königsberg, enfolded Elbing, created a pocket 85 miles deep. The Russians had done another impossible: they had broken through the "impregnable" German defenses in the Masurian Lakes area, had narrowed the pocket to an average width of 40 miles. Inside was what remained of a Wehrmacht force of some...
...Ivan Bagramyan's army group, poised on the banks of the Niemen on Chern-yakhovsky's right flank, could help things along by a breakthrough from the north. On Chernyakhovsky's left, Colonel General Georgi Zakharov was reported by the Germans to be attacking in the Masurian Lakes region with hundreds of tanks and planes, behind a "drumfire of artillery" (the usual German phrase indicating a breakthrough assault...
...supply was chaotic, soldiers were exhausted from long marches, liaison was fantastically bad, command corrupt and inept. At the Masurian Lakes one Russian commander deployed his corps by plain-language radio orders, stupidly tipped off the Germans...
...Russians struck first with an army group from the east, on a line north of the Masurian Lakes. The honor went to the Third White Russian Army group, commanded by 37-year-old tank expert General Ivan D. Chernyakhovsky. The Third drove in from the east on a 25-mile front along the Kaunas-Insterburg Railroad. Then the Second White Russian Army group under Colonel General Georgi F. Zakharov struck from the Narew River in the south and the First Baltic Army group of Armenian General Ivan K. Bagramian pushed in from the north near Tilsit. In 1914 the Russians...
...Lakes. Farther north, the whole irrational Nazi line was being hammered. Smashing into the corridor between the Vistula and the Masurian Lakes was General Feodor Zakharov's Second White Russian Army. It took the Narew River fortress of Lomza in midweek, and advanced through Novgorod to within sight of the lakes, where a 30-year-old defeat could be avenged...