Word: rails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to Bialystok, the towns conquered in one day by the Red Armies were Lvov and Stanislavov in southern Poland, Dvinsk in Latvia, and Shavli, an important rail junction in Lithuania. If the Germans had been resisting as stubbornly as a year ago, any one of the five would have been deemed worth weeks of siege...
Deliverance at Hand. There were no fireworks in Warsaw. That grim, ruined capital rocked with the crash of bombs from Red planes on the rail stations and yards. The ragged, starved, decimated people of Warsaw could also hear the approaching thunder of Russian artillery...
Lvov, the greatest rail city of southeastern Poland, was taken by wily, egg-bald Marshal Konev, commanding the First Ukrainian Army in place of Marshal Zhukov, who had gone to Moscow to be Stalin's deputy commander in chief. On the rail line to Cracow, Konev stormed Przemysl and Jaroslav. At Przemsyl he was 180 miles from the Silesian corner of Germany...
...dawn when Barrow and I joined the troop movement; the cruelty of the heat and cloudless skies was already unbear able. The whole Sixty-Second Army was on foot. As far as you could see, strung over the horizon through rice paddies, in single file along the ruined rail bed, crawling through ditches on the devastated highway, were single files of Chinese troops...
With the Führer so far away, German troops in the path of the Russians relied on materials closer to hand. In a feverish hurry they laid extensive minefields, felled trees, dynamited huge craters in the roads, blew up bridges and rail trackage, destroyed any of their own transport which they could not fuel or repair...