Word: taganrog
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...they would not: retreat. All along the 700-mile fluid front, from the forests of Smolensk to the Sea of Azov, the Wehrmacht was falling back in what might yet be its worst defeat. Nazi bastions which a month ago were safely in the rear were now in peril. Taganrog, Yelnya, Sumy and Konotop had fallen. Smolensk, Poltava, Mariupol and Stalino (which Berlin once possessively hailed as "Russia's Essen") awaited the Red blow. For many, the blow might come within days...
...Colonel General Fedor Tolbnkhin, captor of Taganrog. A huge man with a heavy, calm, intelligent face, he is the septet's least-known member. One of five army chiefs who helped to trap Friedrich von Paulus, Tolbukhin this year jumped two grades within four months. Equally adept in the use of cavalry and tanks, he used both last month to punch holes in the German defenses in the south. Last week he stage-managed a "little Stalin-grad" at Taganrog...
...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...