Word: bridgehead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in the Caucasus, the Russians drove home the first major blow of the spring. Under an umbrella of air power, Red divisions stormed Hitler's vital Kuban bridgehead, crashed through Krimsk, 15 miles northeast of Novorossüsk, and split the German forces in two. Three hundred barges full of Red marines landed on the north shore of the Taman Peninsula, attacked the Germans from the rear. These successes endangered Hitler's last position on the eastern shore of the Black...
Heaviest of the preparatory blows last week fell in the Kuban valley, where the Germans still fiercely defended a Caucasian bridgehead. This region could be the base for a summer offensive to regain all the ground that they had lost in the Caucasus...
...Germans, trying to enlarge their Caucasian bridgehead in the Kuban, threw eight to ten divisions into a fruitless offensive. In the Kalinin sector, northwest of Moscow, General Maxim Purkaev, Soviet Military Attache in Berlin when war began, led a limited Soviet drive through the scrubby birch forests. But the most important action was taking place behind the fronts...
LONDON--Russian guns are hammering the German lines all the way from the Kuban bridgehead to the Volkhov River south of Leningrad, Moscow dispatches reported tonight, in apparent preparation for the imminent opening of the spring campaign...
...geographic results of Russia's winter campaign, if that line is correct, are shown above. The net strategic effect has been to leave the Germans on something very like the line from which they started a year ago, except that they now hold all Crimea and the Novorossiisk bridgehead. The map also pointed up the smallness of Russian gains in the north. The Rzhev salient was reduced and the Leningrad siege lifted, but nothing like the hoped-for offensive eating into the Baltic states had been realized...