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Marshal Georgy Zhukov, stalled in Tarnopol's ruins, struck on the northern flank. In a cold spring rain, one column crossed the bloated Ikwa to take the 950-year-old fortress of Dubno, in old Poland. Another column slithered up a hill to take the fortress of Krzemieniec. From both, roads now led straight...
Marshal Georgy Zhukov's men battled in the streets of Tarnopol (see map). This 400-year-old town is a gateway to the great fortress of Lwow; the key to the fate of the German armies in the Ukraine. To hold it, the Germans rushed in huge reinforcements (a Red scouting plane saw a column of 400 tanks), emplaced guns on a hill dominating the town, fought for every house...
...Zhukov turned the point south. Twelve German divisions-four of them armored-were swept aside, a 120-mile gap was torn open, gains of 35 miles were made by the third morning. Early this week Zhukov's men stood only 20 miles from the key German base of Tarnopol, in prewar Poland; only 30 miles from Rumania's border...
...Cherkassy direction our troops . . . together with guerrillas . . . struck an unexpected blow. . . . In October several guerrilla detachments in the Tarnopol region blew up 33 enemy troop trains, two armored trains and a railway bridge. . . . At the beginning of November the Germans sent out a large punitive expedition against one of the guerrilla detachments. In a two-day engagement the Soviet patriots wiped out more than 100 enemy officers and men and forced the enemy to retreat...
Baranowicze, Rowne, Tarnopol, Zaleszczyki were all invaded at once. Out of the raving wilderness that was Poland came word that Marshal Smigly-Rydz diverted a whole Army corps from Wilno to confront the Russians in the northeast, that a hot fight ensued at Molodeczno, rail junction between Wilno and Minsk. Elsewhere opposition was nominal or minus. Refugees over the Rumanian border described the new invaders as traveling peaceably along the same Ukrainian roads as the fugitive Poles. It was a mass movement of occupation rather than of conquest, although performed the same way as the crashing German onslaught-mechanized forces...