Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week the situation had undoubtedly been improved. A vast road-and-railroad communications system had been built up, and it would grow & grow. But until the Allies had Antwerp, where locomotives, railroad cars and other heavy freight could be poured ashore, troops on the line would have to get used to shortages...
...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 had thrown 25 divisions into East...
...Russian army group fighting in Hungary had been stalled some 50 miles from Budapest for several weeks. Last week General Ivan Y. Petrov's Fourth Ukrainian army group fighting southward from Czechoslovakia eased the supply problem. A railroad and a road pass across the Carpathians were taken, and thus southern Poland and Hungary were linked through Transylvania. Five other Carpathian passes were also captured. Now Petrov needed only to meet roving Cossack cavalry and tanks from eastern Hungary to complete additional links...
Killed in Action. David, Lord Davies, 29, reputedly richest man in the British Army, Major in the Royal Welch Fusiliers, coal, banking, and railroad heir of the late, liberal 1st Baron of Llandinam; in the European theater...
Johnson had traveled the 770 miles to Chicago to attend a two-day meeting of U.S. railroad men. Their agenda: how to handle the increasing load on the railroads...