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...caution to the winds and dashed for Berlin, the answer would be yes. Best guess: he would not. Although his frontal thrust toward the heart of the Reich made heartening headlines, military analysts watched his northern wing with increasing interest. That wing had probed to within 20 miles of Stettin. Paradoxically it was a greater threat to Berlin than the shorter thrust through the twin Oder River fortresses of Frankfurt and Küstrin, where the Germans had chosen to make an armored stand...
...Stettin's fall would mean that the Germans were failing to do what the U.S. and British troops had done in the Ardennes bulge: hold the shoulders of the salient and prevent the attacking tide from spreading beyond control. Stettin's capture would widen Zhukov's Berlin salient to safe proportions...
Flanking Threats. Although Marshal Zhukov aimed his biggest spear at Berlin, his northern wing had pounded to within 20 miles of Berlin's Baltic port of Stettin. That drive threatened to cut off 11,000 square miles of Germany's northeastern province of Pomerania...
...north with that of Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky's Second White Russian Army. Russian spearheads passed the Reich's borders, cut the main Berlin-Danzig railroad, surrounded Schneidemühl, an anchor point on the prewar defense wall Germany had built facing Poland. The main objective: Stettin...
...SEVEN JUMP FROM PLANES WITHOUT PARACHUTES." The story: three Canadians, four Englishmen jumped from a Lancaster bomber over southern Sweden after the Stettin raid "all unhurt . . . astonishing feat." In other papers the astonishing feat was qualified by a fact that Dagens Nyheter did not print. When the jump was made the plane was over southern Sweden, but it was on the ground...