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Down the Carpathian flank of the funnel poured General Rodion Malinovsky's Second Ukrainian Army. A massive artillery barrage cracked the concrete firing points built by the Germans around Jassy, Rumania's second city (pop. 100,000) and ancient capital, famed for monasteries and native daughter Magda Lupescu...
...victors: Odessa-born ex-sergeant Rodion Malinovsky and his army of Odessa veterans. In 1941 these men battled for more than two months in the city's ruins before moving out, aboard the ships of the Black Sea Fleet. Now it was good to be back, even if the great city lay dead and charred...
...General Rodion Malinovsky's army was pushing westward from Kherson. It was a "grudge" army of Stalingrad veterans, out for the blood of the Sixth German Army, which they had once destroyed and which had since been reactivated...
...General Rodion Malinovsky's Army splashed into Kherson and on toward Nikolayev after a spectacular overnight thrust. In the flooded plain, the cavalry bore the brunt of battle. Shrewdly, Malinovsky sent a myriad of raiding units-a tank or two, tommy gunners, horsemen-into the steppe to sow panic. They did their job well: Moscow said nowhere was chaos greater than in this sector...
Pobeda IV. Farther south, General Rodion Malinovsky, a 45-year-old ex-corporal who fought in France in World War I, struck at the closed end of the Dnieper U. In a four-day battle, his Third Ukrainian Army drove through 30-odd miles of enemy defenses. Moscow announced that he had all but cut off five infantry divisions there. But more important still was his threat to the great Nazi strongholds of Krivoi Rog and Nikopol. When they fall (this week the Russians were fighting in Nikopol's suburbs), most of the Dnieper loop will be cleared...