Word: crimea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toward Rumania. In the massive Battle of the Dnieper Bend, churning between Kiev and the Crimea since October, the Red Army won two key towns, gave Marshal Joseph Stalin cause to issue special orders of the day, Moscow cause to jubilate with fireworks and cannon...
Until the Sun Rises. Wrote Nazi Correspondent Hermann Niekamp from the Crimea: "Tracer bullets light the night. Machine guns suddenly stop. . . . Then ghostlike figures come darting. A hand grenade falls close by, then another and another. The German soldiers in the trenches know death is only a few yards away and grit their teeth...
...Crimea, Red troops slowly pushed their way in through two narrow corridors. For the garrison of some 75,000 German and Rumanian troops this was a futile battle: even a sea escape was no longer likely, with Russian bombers operating west of the Crimea and the Black Sea Fleet out on a hunt...
White Russia, Leningrad and Kalinin regions from the enemy; when we will liberate . . . the people of the Crimea and Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Moldavia and Karelo-Finm'sh Republic [i.e., the parts of Finland ceded to Russia...
...After a hard battle, two beachheads were won near Kerch. Cut off from all land routes of escape, the German garrison in the Crimea was now being slowly compressed...