Word: timoshenkos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Odessa; Caucasian army, based on Tiflis; Turkestan army, based on Tashkent and Frunze; Far Eastern army, based on Chita and Vladivostok. The armies are commanded as follows: Northern, Marshal Klimenti E. Voroshilov; Western, Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky; Southern, Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov; Caucasian, Marshal Ivan Bagramian; Turkestan, Marshal Semion K. Timoshenko; Far Eastern, Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky. Eight hundred thousand men in this army of 1,800,000 are "mobile," in that they are replaced from time to time by new conscripts. But 1,000,000 men stay in the army throughout their lives, as professional soldiers. The six armies...
...knew the use of every armed branch; he knew that teamwork produced victory. The teammates were all his intimate friends-young Novikov, now Chief Marshal of Aviation, Zhukov, Marshal Semion Timoshenko...
When Hitler invaded Russia, Bagramian was a colonel. Five months later, tough Bagramian was a lieutenant general. He became tough Marshal Semion Timoshenko's Assistant Chief of Staff, tasted the bitterness of defeat, learned precious lessons...
...clearing of the Caucasus by an army directed by square-jawed Marshal Semion Timoshenko. Stalin hinted the victory cleared the way for an attack on the Crimea, claimed the defeat cost the Germans 20,000 dead, 3,000 prisoners...
Over Paul's desk also came the prodigious data of the outside world. One night he edited a story about Marshal Timoshenko's defense of Rostov. For the first time, Paul realized, the Nazi army had been held, walloped, hurled back...