Word: focsani
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...hours Russians and Germans fought a savage street battle. Then the city fell. The Second Ukrainian Army lunged southward through ripening wheat and corn, sent spearheads westward into the beech-clad Carpathian foothills, penetrated Hungarian-held Transylvania. At week's end it hammered past Focsani, western anchor of the Gap's defenses and a main junction on the railway to Ploesti...
...Focsani, 100 miles northeast of Bucharest and the epicentre of the quake, was reported in ruins; Galatz, site of the German submarine base, suffered severely; and Giurgiu, principal oil port on the Danube, saw public buildings and factories reduced to mangled heaps. In Campina, thickly populated oil town, refinery chimneys toppled, houses collapsed, and pipelines burst, dousing the ground with a gummy and inflammable threat. In the heavily guarded Ploesti field a few fires broke out, were later reported extinguished. Buckled tracks, collapsed bridges, severed telephone cables and German censorship stopped traffic and disrupted communications throughout Rumania, prevented the true...