Word: voroshilov
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acquaintence Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov so admired Joe Davies' shockproof, water proof wrist watch that Davies' immediately gave it to him. The Marshal, in return, presented Joe Davies with his own, quite ordinary timepiece, which Joe Davies said he would give to his grandson...
Before the Red Army had a chance to dig in, Leeb sent 300,000 men against the city's outer defenses. They were repelled by Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov, whose forces included thousands of women and factory workers. During the next year the Germans hammered the city with 52 infantry, four motorized and four tank divisions, some 6,000 heavy guns, not counting thousands of machine guns, mortars and planes. Shells were lobbed into the city almost daily; hardly a day or night was free of air raids. Destroyed early in the siege were warehouses packed with a three-year...
Last August Stalin designated Zhukov First Vice Commissar for Defense, but left him in command of the central front. For reasons known only at the Kremlin, he also left him with his title of Army General, one degree below Marshals Shaposhnikov, Timoshenko, Voroshilov, et al. Marshal Shaposhnikov lately has been ill, and in the months when Stalin was planning his winter offensives he turned more & more to his Liubimets...
Russian reserves, drawn from western Siberia where Marshals Voroshilov and Budenny have been training huge new armies, were thrown into the Stalingrad struggle to relieve weary Red Army fighters who had been hammered slowly back toward the Volga during torrid August and September weeks. The reserves came from training camps in Western Siberia, not from the front line in the east where a section of the Red Army guards against any Japanese attack. If Marshal Timoshenko expected Stalingrad to fall he was almost certainly withdrawing-and saving -the bulk of his veteran troops for battles to come...
...advance the Germans paid in blood & steel. At the points of greatest crisis the Red Army brought up its precious KV tanks-precious because they were Russia's best and because they were so few. Censors permitted the first description of them. The KV (for Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov) is a massive 46-tonner, with a 76-mm. main gun and thick armor which turns shells from enemy 75s and is often proof against fire from the Germans' famed 88s. The Russians say that it is almost fireproof, a decided improvement over German, British and U.S. tanks...