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...this time Hero Rotmistrov was elsewhere. Best guess: he was at the head of the tatnk forces which this week broke into the German stronghold of Krivoi...
Farther north, Red armies hammered at Vitebsk. New thrusts sprang out of Nevel. Striking across dense forests south of Lake Ilmen, Russian troops had torn a ten-mile gap in German lines, cut an important railroad. A drive north of the lake threatened the great stronghold of Novgorod. Somewhere, the Stavka hoped, the German line would burst under the fierce pressure, let the Red flood through...
Twin Perils. In the north, Armenian General Ivan Bagramian was hacking away methodically at the Vitebsk-Mogilev line (see map, p, 27). The great German stronghold of Vitebsk was engulfed. Orsha was in danger. And at any hour, the four huge Red Armies idling in the north might roll west, crush the thinly spread forces of Field Marshals von Kluge" and von Küchler, pour into old Poland, the Baltic States...
General Eisenhower had evidently determined to go into western Europe with some of the men who worked with him in the south. But to those who remained behind he gave a heartening farewell: "Until we meet again in the heart of the enemy's Continental stronghold I send godspeed and good luck to each of you along with the assurance of my lasting gratitude and admiration...
This was the first official hint of what may well be Douglas MacArthur's plan to reduce Rabaul, the Jap Southwest Pacific stronghold. The Admiralties lie on Rabaul's western flank. Kavieng, at the top of New Ireland Island, lies 150 miles to Rabaul's north, is a way station from Truk. Allied bases on the Admiralties and New Ireland, combined with bases already established in the Solomons, New Guinea and New Britain, will mean the encirclement of Rabaul. Last week the air-and-sea pincers were pressed from the Solomons, where a 17-months' campaign...