Word: batum
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...Fleet's chief: tough, ingenious Vice Admiral Filip S. Oktyabrsky, who left Odessa with enemy bullets whizzing about his ears and who in the dark days of 1942 must have considered blowing up his ships if his last base at Batum fell. Now things were different...
...hold Rostov, the naval base at Novorossisk, the Maikop oilfield 65 miles from the coast, the upper reaches of the Transcaucasian railway between Rostov and the Caspian. Last week they were fighting for Tuapse, a minor port on the Black Sea, 270 miles across winter-locked mountain passes from Batum...
...force, striking toward Grozny and the Caspian, had been stalled for the past two months on the Terek River, which German broadcasts described as "the accursed stream where so much German blood has already been shed." Another spearhead had moved from captured Novorossiisk toward the great oil port of Batum. It did not get far before the Russians counterattacked...
...Stalingrad falls, most of the German weight will be directed against the Caucasus. There are five ways through the Caucasus: one route on the Caspian Sea, one on the Black Sea, three passes across terrible mountains. They all come out into the southern Caucasus valley, stretching from Batum to Baku. It is most probable that, if Stalingrad falls, the German drive will be directed on Baku...
...Germans, nor rob them of their summer gains. (After one bitter winter in Russia the German armies came back to strike at Stalingrad and the Caucasus.) The snows which soon will block the high Caucasian passes will not block the low roads along the Black and Caspian Seas to Batum, Baku and the Middle East. Only the Red Armies in the Caucasus-so far unable to block the approaches, and soon likely to be cut off from the body of Russia-can block the roads. Winter will not sink the Germans' motor barges, skirting the Russian strong points...