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...Germans had no sea bases on the Ukrainian coast. They still held the Crimea, but Soviet men-of-war and aircraft hacked its supply arteries to Rumania. Last week a new Russian offensive drove 12 miles into the Crimean defenses behind which 100,000 Axis troops may be trapped...
German civilians bombed out of the Reich were "advised" to leave Rumania within ten days. In Bessarabia, boys of 16-18 were called for military service. Ships were being massed in Rumania's ports to evacuate the battered, impatient Axis troops in Nikolayev, Odessa, the Crimea...
...Then the "Red Rose of the Recolution" fell in love with a huge, illiterate, black-bearded sailor named Dybenko, who had led the revolt of the Baltic Fleet. In the midst of revolutionary history, the two made a counterrevolution of their own, went off to the lush and lazy Crimea for a prolonged weekend. Alexandra Mihailovna was almost...
...Russian landing contingents," Berlin said, had launched a direct attack on the Crimea's Kerch...
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...