Word: azov
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hitler's Orel salient seemed doomed. If it fell and if the Red Army also succeeded in liquidating the Belgorod salient, the Russians would be free to make the move the Germans probably feared most -a push southward toward the Sea of Azov, which would cut off the industrial Donets basin and trap large German forces. If this operation could be executed, the great westward march would be under...
West of Rostov, along the Sea of Azov coast, the Russians were doing better. Tank and infantry forces were pounding hard against the German defenses covering Taganrog and Mariupol. Said Moscow: "All indications are that the battle here is moving toward a climax...
Warm winds from the southwest blew across the southern Ukraine last week. From Kharkov to the Sea of Azov the snow began to melt and the rich black earth steamed. Red Army men took off their cloth helmets and marched bareheaded. Tankers lifted their turrets and breathed lungfuls of the fresh, clean...
Elastic defense can be masterful, as Rommel's retreat to Tunisia was, or merely chaotic. The Russians had two chances of making it chaotic-they could drive south through Stalin to the Sea of Azov, pocketing the routed defenders of Rostov, and west from Lozovaya to the Dnieper bend at Dniepropetrovsk, cutting the Caucasian remnant and Crimean garrisons off from convenient retreat by rail or good roads...
...Caucasus the story was the same. Two swift Russian smashes wedged some 200,000 Germans under Field Marshal Siegmund Wilhelm Walther List into a narrow strip along the Black Sea and Sea of Azov north of Novorossiisk. At week's end the Russians said that, by taking Yeisk on the Sea of Azov, they had closed the Germans' last channels of escape via Rostov. There were reports of the Red Fleet's harrying boatloads of Germans fleeing across the narrow (3 mi.) Kerch Straits to the Axis-held Crimea. The most the Nazis could hope...