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When Zhukov broke through the Bug line a month ago, the whole German line began to fall back. Zhukov knew he could not encircle a force retreating twelve to 18 miles a day, decided to outrace it. He seized its roads, rail centers, Dniester bridgeheads by quick penetrations, straddled the few good retreat routes across a muddy, wooded flatland...
...Eighth Infantry and First Tank Armies wiped up between the Bug and the Dniester...
...Germans had had every reason to think that they could take their time in retiring. They probably expected to hold the Russians on the River Bug until well into May. For the Ukraine, like a ship divided into many compartments, is divided by rivers running north and south, each of which forms a defense line: Behind the Dnieper lies the Bug, behind the Bug lies the Dniester, behind the Dniester lies the Prut...
...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 along the sandy Prut river, nowhere wider than 300 yards...
...confused with the Polish Bug which empties into the Vistula...