Word: konev
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...knew better than Berliners that Berlin would need all this and more. The Red Army's Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov, though striking hard, had yet to launch his hardest blows. South of Berlin, Marshal Ivan S. Konev's forces smashed from Oder bases toward the Czechoslovakian border. North of Berlin, Zhukov drove for the old Baltic port of Stettin, tried to tear loose this anchor of the Oder River line...
...main front, Marshal Ivan Konev, with the certainty of immense power, slowly extended his advance south of Marshal Georgi Zhukov's grip on the Oder River to form a bulgeless front. By this week their combined front threatening Berlin was 90 miles long-twice as long as it had been two weeks before...
...long, narrow spearhead that Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov had thrust toward Berlin broadened out. While Zhukov paused, Marshal Ivan S. Konev hammered into line on his left. The Red armies were linked along the east bank of the Oder, their flanks more secure...
...spearheads on the west bank could reach farther. Konev columns snaked around Breslau, sealed off Silesia's largest city, locked up its garrison. Red Army Tommy gunners broke into the town, began a grim house-to-house fight...
...Another Konev column plunged nearer to Dresden. Still another surged up the Autobahn toward Berlin's southern gates, in a drive aimed through the Cottbus rail center. Hard fighting raged inside the walled, medieval town of Guben, communications center 65 miles southeast of the Reich's capital. Great clouds of smoke, rising from fires set by British and American airmen, beckoned them...