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Marshal Ivan Konev's army fought its way across the Bug, raced over 60 muddy miles in two days, crossed the Dniester with scarcely a change in pace. Said a British newsman in Moscow of ex-Lumberjack Konev: "He has done the unexpected, the unbelievable, the impossible...
Marshal Ivan Konev's men captured the Luftwaffe's key base of Uman. The Germans were still digging trenches when the Russians struck, had no time to destroy immense supply dumps, fled half-clothed. This week Konev's Army was pounding on the German defense wall...
Pobeda III. At the open end of the Dnieper U, the Russians marked the Stalingrad anniversary with another encirclement of German forces. By sharp, converging 50-mile thrusts, the armies of Generals Vatutin and Ivan Konev had worked in behind one armored and nine infantry divisions-perhaps 100,000 men. Moscow reported that they were being rapidly liquidated...
...Berdichev, a manufacturing center and traffic junction, once the headquarters of Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein's South Russia Command. A bitter, five-day attack expelled the Germans from Berdichev, battered them back toward the next and last railway from the Ukraine into Poland. To General Ivan Konev's Second Ukrainian Army fell Kirovograd, a station on a trunk railway leading westward from the far end of the Dnieper Bend...
Tough Job. If Bagramian takes Vitebsk, he will rank with other Red greats: Konstantin Rokossovsky, now inching toward Vitebsk from the under side; Nikolai Vatutin, fighting in the Kiev bulge, 350 miles to the south; Stalin's pal, Ivan Konev, long stalemated in the Dnieper bend...