Word: taganrog
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From the base at Voroshilovgrad, Russia's Pittsburgh, against the eastern bottom of the German pocket. Here, this week, the Germans abandoned Taganrog, which survived the great Red offensive of last winter. In this pocket, too, Soviet flyers saw the Nazis blow up dumps and defense-a telltale of retreat...
...Kuban drive, with another from the west against Nazi-held Taganrog, could deprive the Germans of springboards for counter-drives in the south...
West of Rostov, along the Sea of Azov coast, the Russians were doing better. Tank and infantry forces were pounding hard against the German defenses covering Taganrog and Mariupol. Said Moscow: "All indications are that the battle here is moving toward a climax...
Such an offensive, if successful, would: 1) complete the entrapment of the Axis armies in the Don-Volga area; 2) bar the Germans' way of retreat to their last summer's line (Taganrog-Kharkov-Kursk-Orel) ; 3) finally doom the halting German drive in the Caucasus, perhaps cut off the Caucasian armies' last line of supply and retreat through the Crimea; 4) force the Germans to draw further on their dwindling reserves...
...opposition of two tactics, the lancing technique of the Russians and the strongpoint system of the Germans, that kept the front from knitting itself into the stabilized warfare of 1915-18 in France. From Leningrad, newly freed from the German, to Taganrog, there were at least ten separate pockets of German resistance, stoutly held (see map). The Russians surged between and around them, in great pincers. But the pincers were hard to close. The Germans held...