Word: northwards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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West of Paris other elements of Patton's Third and of Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' First Army streaked across enlarged bridgeheads over the Seine. Their clear objective: a sweep northward to cut the retreat Allied pilots reported the Germans were making from their robomb coast. A parallel column, 15 miles to the east of Paris, was at the Marne near Lagny...
...Germany: 200 Miles. But it was northward that the Allied advance made the swiftest progress. Motorized units of "Butler's Task Force," commanded by Brigadier General Frederick B. Butler, kiting up secondary roads in the hills east of the Rhone valley, quickly reached Grenoble. They were now 150 miles from the coast, 230 miles from Lieut. General Omar N. Bradley's forces in the north, 200 miles from the German frontier. Three days later a party of correspondents, jeeping peacefully through Maquis-held territory, turned up on the Swiss frontier near Geneva, 200 miles from the beachhead...
...Marshal Rokossovsky's army group gained ground north of the city, in attacks toward the Warsaw-Bialystok railroad. Some 100 miles to the south, in sweltering hot weather, Marshal Konev fought off repeated German tank and infantry attacks, developed a huge salient across the Vistula, from which a northward drive toward Warsaw might roll up the Germans on the west bank...
Meanwhile, the Russians leisurely probed their squirming bag of 30 German divisions trapped in Latvia and Estonia by the Red drive to the Gulf of Riga. General Yeremenko attacked along the Dvina River toward Riga. General Masslenikov started a sweep northward along the west shore of Lake Peipus...
Shavli, cut the railroad from Riga to Tilsit in East Prussia, and left only a one-track line through Memel as an escape route for some 30 German divisions on the Baltic fronts. Bagramian then blocked even this forlorn loophole by broadening his salient northward to the junction at Jelgava...