Word: stalingraders
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...scouts mapped the German fire points : 200 in the first line, more in the rear. Other units made ready to cross the Sivash (also called the Putrid Sea), the stagnant, shallow western corner of the Azov Sea. Then the commander, rotund General Feodor Tolbukhin, expert horseman and veteran of Stalingrad, waited...
...German Sixth Army (reconstituted since Stalingrad) chewed up on the Dnieper...
...road back had been very grueling. The last long lap in the Ukraine had not been a successful retirement but a major defeat, like Stalingrad...
General Rodion Malinovsky's army was pushing westward from Kherson. It was a "grudge" army of Stalingrad veterans, out for the blood of the Sixth German Army, which they had once destroyed and which had since been reactivated...
Last-the Infantry. Yet the fact that there was still fighting to be done did not mean that the massive bombardment had been a failure. Cassino had simply added one more lesson to the established lessons of Verdun, of Stalingrad, of Tarawa. No bombardment can totally eliminate a foe skilled and nervy enough to wait it out. The infantryman must write the final score...