Word: crimea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, after 72 hours of such pounding, Sevastopol fell. Into Russian hands fell a vast booty, from shoe polish to crated bombers. Nearly 25,000 more prisoners went behind the barbed wire, to join 37,000 taken elsewhere in the Crimea (some 50,000 others were killed). In the harbor, Red engineers got to work. Soon...
Return Home. Five weeks ago the Russians returned to the Crimea, in a whirlwind ten-day drive swept to the walls of Sevastopol. There, Stalin's chief of staff, big, brilliant Alexander Vasilevsky, paused. When the final blow came it had to be hard and fast...
Attacking from north and east, the Russians wrested the Crimea back in just one week - in one of the most complete German reverses of World...
Preparation. Last November the Russians began to probe the enemy defenses on Perekop ("Cross-Ditch"), the six-mile-wide northern corridor into the Crimea. One by one, Red scouts mapped the German fire points : 200 in the first line, more in the rear. Other units made ready to cross the Sivash (also called the Putrid Sea), the stagnant, shallow western corner of the Azov Sea. Then the commander, rotund General Feodor Tolbukhin, expert horseman and veteran of Stalingrad, waited...
...east, where the Crimea stretches its small head towards the Caucasus like an eager turtle, other troops held on to beachheads seized in the winter. In December a trapped Red unit broke through the enemy lines at night, seized Kerch piers, escaped aboard waiting Red warships...