Word: stettiners
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...Zossen, only 20 miles from Berlin, a special mission of 650 U.S. heavies spread fire and ruin over a large barracks, reportedly the German General Staff's Headquarters. At Swinemünde, ships loading supplies for Stettin got it hot & heavy. At Oranienburg, a focal rail point for the Oder front, more than 700 U.S. bombers put on the strangle. Berlin was hit with a record U.S. attack (1,300 bombers, 700 fighters) on rail yards and armaments factories. British Mosquitoes went into their fifth week of unbroken nightly bombings of the German capital. Re-rigged R.A.F. Lancasters flew...
...north a second threat grew. The old port of Stettin, guarding Berlin's flanks, was crumbling under Russian gunfire and bombs from Allied air fleets, operating in support of the Russian armies. Some 25 Red divisions, backed by four tank and one cavalry corps, had drawn a 50-mile arc around the bays and narrows of the Stettiner Haff and Dammscher See, the outer and inner harbors...
...Germans had time to do something: build a deep line of entrenchments and "kettles" (Red Army slang for German "hedgehogs") back of the Oder and Neisse Rivers, at which the Russians had halted. The Germans could do something else: concentrate against Zhukov's most threatening thrust, aimed at Stettin. They had good kettles in the Stargard area...
...week Poznan and Arnswalde fell. Poznan, Poland's fourth city, was a notable victory, even though it was 100 miles behind the front facing Berlin. At Poznan the Red Army reported having killed 25,000 Nazis and captured 23,000. Arnswalde was significant as a guardian outpost of Stettin, 40 miles to the northwest...
Guessing Games. Berlin could wait. The Germans could continue to guess where Red power would strike next. Last week they guessed rightly that some of it would continue to strike toward Stettin, Berlin's Baltic port. Nazi troops slowed the Russians just short of the towered walls of Stargard, Stettin's outer fortress. But there were not enough Germans to meet all the drives now threatening to sew up Pomerania in a giant pocket. East and south of Stettin the Russians made steady advances in other thrusts...