Word: zhitomir
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...newly captured city of Zhitomir lay midway between Stalingrad, where the Germans stood a year ago, and Berlin; Zhitomir was only 125 miles from Bessarabia, 60 miles from prewar Poland. In the north, the front line lay only 50 to 150 miles from Russia's pre-1939 borders...
...Lightning. The great sweep westward brought rich rewards. One of them was the final victory in the battle for the railroads. When the Red Army captured Zhitomir, it severed the Wehrmacht's last north-to-south railway in pre-1939 Russia, compelled the Germans to use the single-track line 100 miles to the west, in pre-1939 Poland. This defeat virtually split apart Germany's southern and central armies, will hamper the shifting of reserves from sector to sector to meet Russian attacks. Main attacks...
...Ukraine, the action was old-time Blitzkrieg in reverse, with the Red Army's performance as spectacular as anything the Wehrmacht has yet shown. Thus, Zhitomir fell to a cavalry corps of three divisions under Lieut. General Victor Baranov (who, for the feat, received the coveted Order of Suvorov, First Class) and a tank army under Lieut. General Pavel Rybalko, who won fame in last winter's campaign. So fast were these generals moving (120 miles in nine days) that happy Moscow gave their chief, General Nikolai Vatutin, a fond nickname: Molnya -Lightning...
Winter Prospects. If the Dnieper Line does not crumble this week or next, it may crumble in the winter, when ice will bridge the river and the Pripet Marshes. The Wehrmacht v.ill then fall back upon its second line, running through the fortresses of Odessa, Zhitomir, Pinsk, Minsk and Riga. If this falls too, the German Army will still have a third line of defense, behind Russia's old frontier. But with each retreat, the Wehrmacht will be weaker, its defense lines less formidable...
...second week it began to look as if that early ease had been misleading. The Germans came up against a tough natural line at the Berezina River where Napoleon caught hell on his return trip, against the so-called Stalin Line at the Dniester River and near Zhitomir, and against ferocity and tenacity everywhere...