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...Russians this was a day of hope and rejoicing. For the Germans it was cruel. After their 850-mile advance from the Prut to the Volga, they were back at the end of 1,009 days at the river where they started...
Because the land ar<5und Finland is as pitted with water as Swiss cheese with air, because Russia is naturally defended from Rumania by the Prut and Dniester Rivers, Germany's two stooges on the flanks did little. Finland toppled reluctantly into the war as German drives developed on Murmansk in the far north and on Lenin grad across the scarred Karelian Isthmus...
Rumanian forces, goaded on by German support, had trouble crossing the Prut, and Russia's most successful counterthrust made its way across the Danube toward Constantsa. The Germans seemed to be gathering forces for a seaborne flanking movement on the Russian naval base of Odessa...
Rumania: Cernauti: chair-naughts' Prut: proot Ploesti: plo'esht
...midsummer Sunday, Mr. & Mrs. Douglas, Mrs. Douglas' mother, their daughter Dorothy and a friend, all caparisoned in yachting caps, boarded Dottie, prut-prutted down Annsville Creek. This time on the railroad bridge stood a silent group of 30 men: the division engineer and his assistant, the superintendent of bridges, a lawyer, electricians, signal crew, bridge and section-gang men. The waiting section hands seized clawbars, heaved at the rails. Finally the track was taken up and Dottie flirted triumphantly through into the Hudson. At Bear Mountain they went ashore and had sodas to celebrate. The silent gang rebound...