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Las Vegas Age
Las Vegas, Clark County, Lincoln County, Nevada
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Red Army advances in WWII: units neared Sevastopol in Crimea, capturing towns and 66,500+ Germans in eight days; toppled Tarnopol in Poland, killing/capturing 18,000+; Odessa campaign yielded 37,500+ casualties. Reported April 15 from London.
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Red Army Has Sevastopol in Close Reach
By Robert Musel United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON. Apr. 15 (UP) - Red army forces pressing the enemy's battered remnants into Sevastopol's "coffin corner." today smashed to within four miles north of that historic battleground city, while in southeastern Poland other red army units toppled the German stronghold of Tarnopol, killing or capturing more than 18,000 Germans.
With today's additions. the Russians have killed or captured approximately 66,500 enemy troops in the whirlwind campaign of the last eight days which also has seen them overrun more than 2.250 towns and villages.
Fifteen Miles In Day
Racing 15 miles down the dusty peninsula in a single day. units of General Feodor I. Tolbukhin's Fourth Ukrainian army brought Sevastopol under the range of red army light artillery by hurling the Germans from the town of Belbek, four miles north of Sevastopol. That force also took Belbek station. seven miles north of the prize fort which the Russians held under a 250-day siege in 1941-42.
Capture of the town of Lyubimovka put the Russians three miles north of Sevastopol.
A supplementary announcement by the soviet information bureau meanwhile announced that General Rodion Y. Malinkovsky's third army. which liberated Odessa last Monday, had killed 26,800 Germans and captured 10,680 during 19 days of its campaign ending April 12.
Those were the battered remnants of the German Sixth and Eighth armies which the Russians had driven across the lower Ukraine from Nikolayev to the Dnestr river
The Moscow broadcast war bulletin announced that the two soviet armies pounding down the Crimea-the other is General Andrei I. Yeremenko's independent maritime army-had captured more than 37,000 German and Romanian troops in the first week of the campaign ending Friday.
In today's fighting the Russians pressed the Germans back to a pocket around Sevastopol of perhaps 200 square miles. The two armies captured more than 60 points today including Shuli. 10 5/8 miles east of Sevastopol, Adzhubulet, 17 miles north, Mamashay. eight north; and Albat, 17 east-northeast.
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Sevastopol
Event Date
Apr. 15
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russians killed or captured approximately 66,500 enemy troops in the last eight days; toppled tarnopol, killing or capturing more than 18,000 germans; general malinkovsky's army killed 26,800 germans and captured 10,680; two soviet armies captured more than 37,000 german and romanian troops in the first week.
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Red Army forces advanced to within four miles north of Sevastopol, capturing Belbek and Lyubimovka; other units toppled Tarnopol in southeastern Poland; General Tolbukhin's Fourth Ukrainian Army raced 15 miles down the peninsula; General Malinkovsky's Third Army liberated Odessa and drove Germans from Nikolayev to the Dnestr; General Yeremenko's Independent Maritime Army involved in Crimea campaign; Russians pressed Germans back to a 200 square mile pocket around Sevastopol, capturing over 60 points including Shuli, Adzhubulet, Mamashay, and Albat.