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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...iron-muscled and iron-willed young Jewish general, Ivan Chernyakhovsky, had 150,000 men-by German count-massed on the province's eastern border. After an artillery barrage of 3,000 shells in 20 minutes, Chernyakhovsky's infantry closed in along the Kaunas-Konigsberg railroad. General Georgy Zakharov's army group also closed in over swampy ground from the south...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Stage Wait | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

...bastions: Kaunas and Grodno on the Niemen River, Bialystok and Brest-Litovsk. Brilliant young General Ivan Chernyakovsky reached the Niemen on a 75-mile front, forced several crossings, established bridgeheads on the west bank, attacked Grodno. Early this week his army was joined there by that of General Georg Zakharov, and Grodno fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: The Germans Squealed . . . | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

...General Zakharov's army overran Volkovysk, a junction on the railroad to Bialystok. General Ivan Bagramian reached far to the west of Dvinsk (still in Wehrmacht hands last week), found himself about 100 miles from the Gulf of Riga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: The Germans Squealed . . . | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

Under Rokossovsky, Bagramian, the young Chernyakhovsky (TIME, July 3) and Colonel General Georg Zakharov, a central-front newcomer who won his spurs in the Crimea, the Russians had 80 to 100 divisions, by German count, concentrated on a front of 200 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Mincemeat at Minsk | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

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