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...northern Burma the Japanese were all but washed up. There was no continuous front-there could be none across the forbidding north-south ridges. But between the ridges, four Allied armies were probing southward like the fingers of a hand; another, like an opposed thumb, was flexing southwestward from China's Yunnan Province. The enemy was fighting only rearguard actions. Obviously he was falling back upon his supply bases in central Burma...
...Passes. The two passes at whose entrances the Russians stood - the Jablonica and Tartar Passes southwestward into Czechoslovakia - are not so rugged and impregnable as some of the territory around Cassino, for example. The passes rise only to about 3,000 ft., above wan dering valleys. The mountains are rolling rather than precipitous...
...Where It's Soft. In three weeks, Vatutin's men had rolled 150 miles to the west, 80 miles southwestward to Rumania. Moscow claimed they had killed 100,000 Germans, taken 7,000 prisoners, captured or destroyed more than 2,000 cannon, 2,500 tanks...
...Wehrmacht before him. He had swept the Germans from Stalingrad 450 miles, nearly to the Dnieper, been set back to the Donets when his supply lines grew overextended, and now was back again, pushing toward Poltava and the Dnieper, with the smart Germans choking the roads and their single southwestward railroad in retreat...
From Belgorod the second prong, led by tanks and motorized columns, slashed southwestward to push swiftly across the flat steppes northwest of Kharkov. The speed was so great in some sectors that the Germans abandoned much heavy equipment in the flight. Some mobile units raced to within 16 miles of Kharkov, one encircled several Nazi garrisons. A powerful secondary drive starting from Chuguev, 25 miles southeast of Kharkov, threatened a new pincers squeeze on the Ukrainian stronghold...