Word: vistula
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...captain. Lost, he found Hitler. He became the ranting Führer's bodyguard, military adviser and top-drawer hooligan. When Hitler rang up the curtain on World War II Erwin Rommel was a colonel, commanded an 55 division that fought in the battle of Poland's Vistula bend. By the time France was invaded, Rommel was a major general; he led the 7th Armored Division in the breakthrough at Maubeuge...
...real significance of the new offensive was that it marked the impending close of the Baltic campaign. Soon the Russians would have eight whole army groups north of the Carpathians with nothing left to attack but East Prussia and the line from that province through Warsaw to the upper Vistula-sectors which seemed long overdue for attention...
Despite destruction, disease, famine and continued German shelling, the outlook for the Warsaw patriots under their pseudonymous commander Bor, now promoted to Major General, was improving. Crossing the Vistula under enemy fire from the bluffs, Russian units carved out a modest bridgehead on the west bank, made contact with Bor's forces...
...Lakes. Farther north, the whole irrational Nazi line was being hammered. Smashing into the corridor between the Vistula and the Masurian Lakes was General Feodor Zakharov's Second White Russian Army. It took the Narew River fortress of Lomza in midweek, and advanced through Novgorod to within sight of the lakes, where a 30-year-old defeat could be avenged...
...miles each way over hostile territory; part over Czechoslovakia, through some of the heaviest flak in Europe. Fighter cover was impossible and all the way back Nazi night fighters would lie in wait for them. Over Warsaw, they had to turn southwest to a certain bridge over the Vistula, fly so many blocks, and make their drops on a particular side of a given street. To do so they had to fly over Warsaw at only 500 ft., only 150 miles an hour, making them easy targets...