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...Marshal Zhukov's army, on the Ukrainian right flank, was the first to reach the foothills of the Carpathians. Behind it burning villages still dotted the plain of Bukovina, which it had crossed after cap turing Cernauti. And above it stood two famed Carpathian passes which Russian armies in one bitter winter of World War I fought to attain, but never succeeded in gaining...
Thus opportunity knocks for Marshal Zhukov. But the question whether he can force the Carpathians depends on how much momentum is left in the Russian wave. In general, Russian tactics is to plunge ahead - as the armies usually do when they come to a river barrier. If they do the same in the face of mountains (which they have rarely met before in this war), this week may put to the proof the relative exhaustion of the retreating Germans and advancing Russians...
...spring when the Ukraine is knee-deep in mud was a mili tary masterpiece. Marshal Malinovsky, commanding the part of the front directly adjoining the Black Sea, had probably done as well as could be expected, since his way lay across the broad estuaries of the big rivers. Marshal Zhukov, at the northern end of the Ukrainian front, had done very well by breaking through with heavy concentrations of guns and tanks into Bucovina. But Konev, in the center, had pushed farthest. He had already crossed the Bug and the Dniester. This week his army held a 50-mile front...
Marshal Georgy Zhukov, stalled in Tarnopol's ruins, struck on the northern flank. In a cold spring rain, one column crossed the bloated Ikwa to take the 950-year-old fortress of Dubno, in old Poland. Another column slithered up a hill to take the fortress of Krzemieniec. From both, roads now led straight...
...south, another powerful force captured the key rail center of Zhmerinka, fought its way into the famed hedgehog of Vinnitsa. By forced day-&-night marches, Zhukov's mobile units caught up with the fleeing Germans, crossed the upper Bug over bridges the Germans had had no time to blow...