Word: vatutin
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...plains of the Ukraine, filtrating through the great marshlands, fighting, always fighting, in winter blizzard or in blistering summer heat, the Red army recaptured half a million square miles of territory in two years, and liberated Soviet Russia. New names had come up beside Zhukov's: Konev, Rokossovsky, Vatutin, Tolbukhin, Malinovsky, Chuikov, Govorov, Voronov and others, almost all men less than 40 years of age. One name that did not make the headlines was that of Secret Police Commissar Serov, who came close in the wake of Zhukov's victories. His assignment : to liquidate all anti-Soviet elements...
...Nikolai Vatutin's salient was a long, narrow thrust into prewar Poland. To the Germans it looked like a dagger that could strike at Rumania, at Poland, at the last remaining rail line feeding the Wehrmacht in the Ukraine...
...three weeks Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein tried to blunt the salient with the flesh of his men. Vatutin's army, grimy with the dust of the 350 miles it had covered since last October, beat off the desperate attacks. Last week the hour struck...
Hard-driving Vatutin himself was not there. Moscow said he was sick. But his place was taken by one of the world's topmost field generals-stocky, aggressive Marshal Georgy Zhukov, fresh from his victory at Korsun, where ten Nazi divisions met their end last month...
Pobeda III. At the open end of the Dnieper U, the Russians marked the Stalingrad anniversary with another encirclement of German forces. By sharp, converging 50-mile thrusts, the armies of Generals Vatutin and Ivan Konev had worked in behind one armored and nine infantry divisions-perhaps 100,000 men. Moscow reported that they were being rapidly liquidated...