Word: stettiners
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...along the Oder and Neisse Rivers, fronting Berlin and Dresden, began to rise this week. The dikes crumpled first in the plains northeast of Berlin. Marshal Georgi Zhukov's forces, behind a tremendous predawn artillery shoot and attacks by swarms of bombers, broke into the Schwedt area below Stettin and set up a new Oder bridgehead 45 miles northeast of Berlin...
There was little doubt that the Red Army was ready to unloose the flood all along the Stettin-Dresden front. And there was no doubt of the outcome as the Russians pushed toward the Americans-at some points less than 80 miles away...
...more. The Red Army's Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov, though striking hard, had yet to launch his hardest blows. South of Berlin, Marshal Ivan S. Konev's forces smashed from Oder bases toward the Czechoslovakian border. North of Berlin, Zhukov drove for the old Baltic port of Stettin, tried to tear loose this anchor of the Oder River line...
...actions reminiscent of Belleau Wood, squeezed the Germans from the Klützer forest southeast of the city. They converged on Altdamm, four miles east of the city. Along a six-mile stretch the Russians stood looking across the mile-wide river marshes at the smoking shambles of Stettin...
With each victory the Red lines shortened. More & more troops turned away, painted "to Berlin" and "to Stettin" on their tanks and vehicles, and hurried to join Zhukov. These were the men Marshal Zhukov awaited, the men to strengthen his lines for the final blow through the Oder defenses to Berlin and beyond...