Word: schobert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flawless job of planning, intelligence and logistics, was promoted to a field commander. In the summer of 1940, his armies broke through the Somme line in France. A year later he became an army commander in Russia when Ukrainian guerrillas killed his chief, Colonel General Eugen Ritter von Schobert. For yet another year, Manstein marched from victory to victory-Odessa, Perekop, Kerch, Sevastopol. But victory was tinged with pain: his two boys, both lieutenants, died in action. And the sands of luck were running...
...announcement followed the death of two Axis generals, indicating that the Russians had a similar idea. At Cernauti, Rumania, 150 miles behind the front line, 58-year-old Colonel General Eugen Ritter von Schobert was killed "in fighting." A Berne report said that Russian parachutists had landed in the town and killed not only General von Schobert but all his staff and the Nazi-liege governor of the province. Seven days later General Mihai lonescu, Chief of Staff of the Rumanian Army, was reported killed in action as his troops hammered at the walls of Odessa...
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