Word: semion
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Russia had tried, gallantly. Under its best general, dashing, cavalry-trained Semion Timoshenko, it had turned a tremendous striking force against Kharkov, throwing its encircling arms around both sides of the city while it battered frontally against the German fortifications. The Germans estimated the Russian strength at 20 infantry divisions, three cavalry divisions, 15 tank brigades. And the Germans were taken by surprise...
...their whole strength into the Crimea, although it is only 22 miles across the Kerch Straits from the oil-soaked Caucasus. To risk everything in a game of leapfrog from Crimea to the Caucasus would mean leaving their left flank open to the wiliest of the Russian generals, Marshal Semion Timoshenko...
They also fought effectively. Hints of the headlong desperation of their smashing drives into Nazi lines even crept into German communiques. Berlin admitted that the Russians were on the edge of the Soviets' Pittsburgh -Kharkov -by saying that the city had been under heavy artillery fire. Bald Marshal Semion Timoshenko was within 20 miles of Dniepropetrovsk and its wrecked power dam, bulling his way ahead at the tip of a sharp salient...
...greatest success of the week, like the greatest successes of the war, belonged to wily Marshal Semion Timoshenko. He sent his men on an oblique, ten-day, 65-mile plunge into the Donets Basin. His aim was to cut direct communications between the great center of Kharkov and the south. This he did at Lozovaya...
Soviet Russia is justly proud of its craggy-faced Marshal Semion Timoshenko, but Wales has put in a claim to half of him. One J. John, a schoolteacher of Crewkerne, England, wrote to a North Wales friend that the Marshal's father was really a Welsh technician, Charles Jenkins, who went to Russia 61 years ago with Schoolteacher John's grandfather to work in a factory at what is now Stalino...