Word: kerch
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Neither combatant ever has acknowledged using gas, perhaps in fear of reprisals. The Red Army, however, accused the Nazis of using gas in the Kerch campaign, a charge stoutly denied by Berlin. Last week a German corporal* published a revealing, apparently uncensored article on the Nazis' "fog mortar...
...height No. 60.8, the decisive point, our division's sector attack has rolled to a halt. The Soviets are sitting tight in a mighty system of forts. But with our new weapons, the heavy mortars, we will out-smite them just as we did at Kerch...
...huge segment of Russia's industry back into the Urals, but they had not even won the approaches to that rear reservoir of might, where Russia's armies could be partly supplied even if most of Russia was lost. The Germans had the Crimea, they had Kerch on the Black Sea. But on their anniversary date they did not yet-not quite -have Sevastopol, the fortress which controls the Black...
...Beyond Kerch, which the Germans hold, lie three of the great Russian oilfields: Maikop and Grozny in the North Caucasus and Baku in the Transcaucasian Soviet republic of Azerbaijan. Maikop is closest to Kerch, 185 miles away. It produces 2,479,500 tons, only 7% of Russia's estimated yearly oil production. Grozny, farther along the way, produces slightly more. But Baku, nestled far down on the Caspian side of the Caucasus, is the richest oilfield in the world. Alone it produces nearly 75% of Russia's rich oil stores...
...southern prong of an Axis drive for the Middle East, with the north prong aimed at the Caucasus and perhaps a central prong from Greece and the Aegean Islands through Turkey. If so, the capture of Tobruk would be just an opening puncture for Rommel, as the capture of Kerch had been an opening puncture for Field Marshal Dieter Wilhelm von Mannstein. Or it might be merely an attack to test the British strength and prevent the diversion of British units to Syria...