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...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...
...January fresh units fought their way into Kerch, but were halted by German tanks. To head this front, Moscow brought from the north bullnecked, shrewd-eyed General Andrei Yeremenko, a 51 -year-old Cossack who headed Stalin grad's defense...
Execution. Early last week the time came. A tremendous artillery barrage erased German defenses at Kerch and Perekop, cleared paths for the two armies from north and east. The defending troops (including many Rumanians) fell back swiftly, then broke. Soviet columns raced across the dusty mid-Crimean steppe at 50 miles a day - and better. Russian cavalry slashed at the flanks of retreating elements, cut into main bodies. Red tentacles curled and spread all over the Vermont-sized peninsula...
...Russian landing contingents," Berlin said, had launched a direct attack on the Crimea's Kerch...
...commander. In the summer of 1940, his armies broke through the Somme line in France. A year later he became an army commander in Russia when Ukrainian guerrillas killed his chief, Colonel General Eugen Ritter von Schobert. For yet another year, Manstein marched from victory to victory-Odessa, Perekop, Kerch, Sevastopol. But victory was tinged with pain: his two boys, both lieutenants, died in action. And the sands of luck were running...