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They Did Not Pass. Paul André Triquet's great-grandfather fought in the Crimean War for Napoleon III; his grandfather fought the Germans who invaded his native France in 1870; his father, who emigrated to Canada, returned in 1914 to fight the Germans again. It seemed only natural for Paul at 19 to enlist as a private in the Royal 22nd Regiment, the "Van Doos...
Wilson was born into a distinguished Suffolk family. One ancestor, Lord Raglan, commanded British forces in the Crimean War; another, Lord Cardigan, led the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava; an uncle, General Sir Henry Fuller Maitland Wilson, had a corps at Salonika in World...
...guerrilla strength, but it must run into hundreds of thousands. In the Army of the Bryansk Forest alone, 3,200 men and women won guerrilla and Red Army decorations. Other "Armies of the Forest" -between Kiev and Zhitomir (see map), in the Pripet Marshes, in White Russia and the Crimean Peninsula-are as big, or bigger...
...there was many a sign that Malinovsky's fast-moving army might yet swerve south to help Colonel General Fedor Tolbukhin seal the narrow Crimean bottleneck. If these two able generals succeeded, the German forces in the Crimea and Kuban-perhaps as many as 300,000 men- would find themselves trapped within a huge nutcracker, one jaw pressing from the Ukraine, the other from the Caucasus. Russia's Black Sea Fleet, based on recaptured Novorossiisk, would add to the Wehrmacht's woes...
Died. Dmitri Hitch Ulyanov, 69, physician, onetime revolutionary, youngest brother of the late Nikolai Lenin; in Gorky, Russia. He was twice jailed before the Communist Revolution made him Vice Commissar of the Crimean Soviet Republic...