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...January fresh units fought their way into Kerch, but were halted by German tanks. To head this front, Moscow brought from the north bullnecked, shrewd-eyed General Andrei Yeremenko, a 51 -year-old Cossack who headed Stalin grad's defense...
Smolensk was the goal of two big armies, headed by Colonel General Andrei Yeremenko, hero of Stalingrad, and Army General Vassily Sokolovsky. After their forces cracked six lines of steel and concrete, Moscow commented jubilantly: "[The line] which closed the so-called Smolensk Gate has been broken...
...around Rostov, the gateway to the Caucasus, up to this week had offered about as little resistance as the Russians did to the Germans last summer. Soviet tanks, artillery and infantry breached the defenses on Rostov's south and southeast perimeter. Cavalry under Colonel General Andrei Ivanovich Yeremenko swept into Bataisk, only twelve miles south of the city. The Russians then announced that they had advanced to the left bank of the Don, and had begun to shell the Germans in the city itself...
Savior of Stalingrad and commander in chief of the armies threatening the German flank in the Caucasus from the northeast is Colonel General Andrei Ivanovich Yeremenko, 50. Stocky, brown-haired, he was born in the Ukraine, left a farm to join the Czarist army in 1913. After the peace he organized guerrilla bands to fight the Germans in the Ukraine, served during the Civil War as a cavalry officer under Semion Budenny. When the Germans invaded Russia, Yeremenko assumed command of an army west of Moscow, played a leading role in the defense of the capital, shifted to Stalingrad when...
Hero of Kotelnikov and commander in the field under Yeremenko is thickset, deep-dimpled Lieut. General Rodion Ya-kovlievich Malinovsky, 44. Odessa-born, he joined the army when he was a boy, fought in France (Amiens, St. Mihiel) with a Russian infantry brigade alongside Americans and Britons. "I shall never forget the British," he says. "Shaving in the darkest days, pipes perpetually between their teeth, they never moved faster than a walk whether in advance or retreat." In this war he won the Order of Lenin for helping to defeat Colonel General Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist during...