Word: stalingraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winter of 1941. To take it, the Russians had to pierce a 40-mi. belt of defenses they described as "the strongest on the Eastern front." The fall of Smolensk turned the left wing of the German Dnieper line, marked a victory as important as that at Stalingrad...
Smolensk was the goal of two big armies, headed by Colonel General Andrei Yeremenko, hero of Stalingrad, and Army General Vassily Sokolovsky. After their forces cracked six lines of steel and concrete, Moscow commented jubilantly: "[The line] which closed the so-called Smolensk Gate has been broken...
...cannon of Moscow also rolled for the leaders-the seven hard, able, aggressive men in command of the seven active fronts. Five of them had proved their mettle in the battle for Stalingrad. On all chests but two glistened the Order of Suvorov, First Class, which Stalin last January awarded to 23 of his best generals. The seven...
...Army's most brilliant field commanders and leading candidate for a marshal's baton (TIME, Aug. 23). His greatest personal triumph was also the greatest victory thus far in World War II: the capture of Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus and 330,000 Nazis at Stalingrad...
...Kharkov. At 44, this stocky, Odessa-born general is a veteran of much bloodshed. In World War I he fought in France beside American troops. In World War II he achieved a major triumph by crushing the Wehrmacht's desperate attempt to relieve the army trapped at Stalingrad. Today his is the crucial job of clamping the lid on the Germans caught in the southern rattrap. The Red Army regards him as a subtle and original tactician, second only to Rokossovsky as a daring and two-fisted field commander...