Word: bialystok
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...after the Song of the Motherland was played, crowds waiting in the drizzle heard the first order of the day. Bialystok had fallen...
First to the Sea? In front of East Prussia and of Warsaw to the south, the Germans had four main 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...
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...
...they had known their defenses would collapse like a framework of overstrained girders at the touch of a cutting torch, why had they not pulled clear out of the Baltic countries and eastern Poland, to a shortened line from Konigsberg through Bialystok and Brest-Litovsk to Kovel...
...north, Marshal Bagramian began an encirclement of Dvinsk in Latvia. To the south, Marshal Rokossovsky captured the key junction of Baranovichi, whose railroads lead to Vilna, Bialystok and Brest-Litovsk. In the treacherous Pripet Marshes, other Rokossovsky forces skirted the bogs along road and rail embankments, captured Luninets and attacked Pinsk...