Word: retaken
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...along the front. Cursing doughfoots ate cold rations, got along on ten cigarets a day. At one point the Third Army fired captured shells from captured 88s. The First Army served their own 155s with ammunition which had been captured from the French by the Germans in 1940, retaken from the Germans...
Their plight was part of the picture of the German disaster on the Eastern Front-a disaster which could not be wholly stated in terms of miles and pins on a map, of casualties and booty, of numbers of "populated places" retaken by the Russians. There were other eloquent little vignettes...
...Germans signalized their coup in Finland by parading third-rate troops around Helsinki, actually sent one armored division and a few planes to the wavering front between fallen Viipuri and Helsinki. The Russians, having retaken a 150-mile enemy-held stretch of the Murmansk-Leningrad railroad between Lakes Ladoga and Onega, were now shipping seaborne supplies direct from Murmansk to Leningrad on this line. On the Karelian front the Red armies were patently able to do their will...
Rome was taken, and Rome was barely scarred. To most of the world these were the important facts about the capture of the first European capital retaken from the Germans. But General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander and his conquering troops were busy with another, further fact: Kesselring's Army, battered, tired and in retreat, could still be destroyed. Alexander's troops surged through and around Rome and pressed the pursuit northward...
...lull was no lullaby for the nerve-racked Germans. Outside the Crimea, there had been no major Soviet offensive anywhere for six weeks. Swarming like ants all over their hundreds of thousands of square miles of retaken ground, the Reds multiplied and strengthened their supply lines, built new installations, brought up to the front great masses of guns, tanks, ammunition, food, fuel...