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...Farther south, the Russians pulled another sneak near the Sea of Azov, advancing 115 miles beyond German-held Taganrog. Here their ultimate aim was to choke oft' German communications into the vital Crimea...
...long as Adolf Hitler retains even a small foothold in Crimea, he has a perfect springboard for his promised second Russian offensive in the spring: a jump from the south smack into the rich oilfields of Baku...
...forces to new positions. Around Leningrad, Russia readied the offensive that would relieve the siege of her second city. South of Moscow Germans had been pushed back in some places more than 120 miles, and their newest stand, on a line from Bryansk to Vyazma, was breached. In the Crimea, having recaptured the naval base of Sevastopol, Russian troops threatened to reclaim the entire peninsula. A Soviet communiqué reported wholesale German surrenders on the Eastern Front...
...week's most telling blow was struck farther south, where Russian soldiers, advancing under heavy German air attacks, occupied the fortress of Kerch and the town of Feodosiya in eastern Crimea. Once Crimea is again in Russian hands (the naval base of Sevastopol is still under German siege), Soviet planes will be based a scant 100 miles from the German-dominated Rumanian coast, the Soviet Fleet again will be an offensive weapon in the Black Sea, and Germany's threat to the oil of the Caucasus will be weakened...
...rail link between Murmansk on the Arctic coast and Leningrad was allayed. Control of the Volkhov River would mean possession of four-fifths of the Moscow-Leningrad railroad. Already recaptured was the southbound Moscow-Tula-Orel railroad. If the Germans could be driven out of the Donets Basin and Crimea, Russia could again link up communications important to her war effort-the zigzag lines of rails connecting Murmansk with Leningrad, Leningrad with Moscow, Moscow with the Donets Basin and the Black...