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Southward they drove on Simferopol, the Crimea's capital, only 40 miles from the great port and naval base of Sevastopol. This week the German High Command announced the capture of the capital, and said that the Russians were retreating to both Kerch and Sevastopol, which they would presumably try to evacuate...
...Crimea was cracked, but it had proved no Crete. Crete fell in twelve days. After more than a month, the Crimea was almost, but not quite, tuckered...
LONDON--Military experts believed today that the Germans plan to drive across Crimea to the Caucasus and turn north to come up on the oil port of Rostov from behind and outflank the whole Russian Don River defense line...
...still had to defeat the remaining Ukraine armies of the whiskery horseman, Semion Budenny (see p. 21). He still had to crack Odessa, with its cauterizing artillery. He still had to take the Crimea, with its naval base. He still had to crush Leningrad, with its 16 divisions and millions of angry civilians (see p. 23). Above all, he still had to wrench Moscow, at the center of Russia's web of communications, from its defenders (see p. 21). Unquestionably, he still had work...
...they prevailed, they would have a short cut to the Caucasus. They would also have more experience in the sort of assault which makes no distinctions between a Crete, a Crimea and a Britain...