Word: vatutin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Last week Joseph Stalin confirmed what Berlin had unhappily admitted two days earlier: the fall of Równe (Rovno) and Luck (Lutsk), an 85-mile thrust into old Poland. Vatutin had bypassed the German-held roads, sent his men into the hub-deep mud of swamps and forests. Outflanked, the Germans retreated...
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...