Word: southward
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...fleet berthed at La Spezia. The Italian surrender had been announced. Admiral Bagliria knew what to do; his decision had been made for him. Aboard his flagship, the 35,000-ton battleship Roma, he gave an order. At 6:30 p.m. the fleet moved out of La Spezia, turned southward...
...From Izyum ("raisin") southward, in a more limited trapping maneuver...
Hitler's Orel salient seemed doomed. If it fell and if the Red Army also succeeded in liquidating the Belgorod salient, the Russians would be free to make the move the Germans probably feared most -a push southward toward the Sea of Azov, which would cut off the industrial Donets basin and trap large German forces. If this operation could be executed, the great westward march would be under...
...manner we expected from an army. The 90th, which had been the backbone of the Afrika Korps, finally agreed to surrender-but only to their old enemy, the Eighth Army. The First Army, then pressing the 90th, turned this proposal down, and fighting continued as the 90th fought southward toward the Eighth. In the end, the 90th's commander, General Count von Sponeck, surrendered to Lieut. General Sir Bernard C. Freyberg, commander of the Eighth Army's New Zealanders...
...German positions around Orel, those farther southward in the Donets basin near Izyum, were likely starting points for an Axis blow at the Russian belly between Moscow and Stalingrad...