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EASTERN FRONT In Zhukov's Good Time
...Peasant-born Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov is a resolute, imperturbable man. His was the determination that transformed a clumsy, sloppy, commissar-ridden Red Army into a gigantic machine that runs smoothly on stern discipline...
Last week Marshal Zhukov had to call upon all his will power. Temptation was great. Berlin, the great prize for which he had fought and planned since the battles of Moscow and Stalingrad, was almost within range of his big guns (31 miles at the closest officially reported point). With one more massive lunge Zhukov might have carried the battle to Berlin, perhaps could have swept around or into much of the city. It would have been a tremendous blow to the sagging German will to fight...
...seemingly endless columns, Zhukov moved up his men and his modern weapons. Supplies came in streams of trucks and wagons. Only a few miles behind the lines, supply dumps were established. If the need of fighting units was ammunition, it was forwarded to them. Rations might follow in a day or two. The Russian soldier quickly gets what he most urgently needs. The rest comes later...
Flanking Threats. Although Marshal Zhukov aimed his biggest spear at Berlin, his northern wing had pounded to within 20 miles of Berlin's Baltic port of Stettin. That drive threatened to cut off 11,000 square miles of Germany's northeastern province of Pomerania...