Word: cernauti
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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...
...announcement followed the death of two Axis generals, indicating that the Russians had a similar idea. At Cernauti, Rumania, 150 miles behind the front line, 58-year-old Colonel General Eugen Ritter von Schobert was killed "in fighting." A Berne report said that Russian parachutists had landed in the town and killed not only General von Schobert but all his staff and the Nazi-liege governor of the province. Seven days later General Mihai lonescu, Chief of Staff of the Rumanian Army, was reported killed in action as his troops hammered at the walls of Odessa...
Rumania: Cernauti: chair-naughts' Prut: proot Ploesti: plo'esht
...working fast to move one rail 3½ inches outward on each of nine roadbeds across the east of old Poland, to make them wide enough for Russian rolling stock bringing supplies to Germany. (Standard gauge was kept on the line from Przemysl through Lwów down to Cernauti, Rumania, over which oil reaches Germany, now under German guard...
...military reasons Rumania anticipates attack from across the Dnestr near Cernauti (see map) rather than from Odessa into Bessarabia. (In Bessarabia there are too many swamplands to cross.) There are now 18 Rumanian divisions massed around Cernauti as against four in Bessarabia, which Rumania might even yield under stress, taking her stand along the River Prut. But meantime Rumania is frantically strengthening her positions from the Black Sea, along the entire length of the Russian border, and back along the entire length of the Hungarian border-honor among Balkan nations cannot be trusted...