Word: crimea
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...Crimea is no Crete. It is three times as big as Crete. It is a peninsula, not an island. It is a center of trade, the linchpin of a whole sea, not just an olive grower's paradise. It boasts a great naval base, not just a great, bare bay. It has several bristling military airports, not just four improvised plane-patches. Its fortifications have been planned for years, not mere days...
...Germans attacked Crimea last week believing it was another Crete, they had a second guess coming...
...attackers opened up with nocturnal bombing. At midnight they sent a wave of tanks and motorized infantry down to the narrow neck of Perekop, which joins Crimea with the mainland. Simultaneously they dropped swarms of parachutists behind the Russian lines and sent naval parties to land at many points...
Within eight hours they guessed again and came back. This time they attacked on a vaster scale. They landed parachutists at such widely separated points as Eupatoria and Feodosiya (see map), bombed the opposite extremes of Perekop and Yalta, sent landing parties ashore along the Crimea's Black Sea coast and across the shallow, stagnant enclosed sea called the Putrid...
...Germans dumped troops, weapons and supplies onto Crete in gliders and drove the British imperial troops from the island after a few days fighting. Their use in the Black Sea battle might indicate an attempt to invade the Crimea...