Word: kerch
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...flanks of Moscow, tried to clean out the Crimea to neutralize Sevastopol, Russia's next-to-last naval base in the Black Sea (last: Novorossiisk in the Caucasus). At Leningrad and Moscow the Russians held fast; in the Crimea Sevastopol held out, but the Germans drove east to Kerch, which is only six miles from the Caucasus. But even in these minor operations, Adolf Hitler was spending his blood-capital...
...special communique from Adolf Hitlor's field headquarters said German troops in a nine-day siege climaxed by bloody street fighting had overwhelmed the Russian defenders of Kerch and that "the entire eastern part of the Crimes is in our hands...
BERLIN--German shock troops were reported officially today to have captured Kerch and 101,600 of the Russians defending it, and military spokesmen said the Germans might strike on across the Korchenski Straits into the Caucasus on the momentum of their present drive, without waiting to map up Crimoa...
...Germans gained Crimea, they would be within six miles of the doubly vital Caucasus-vital for its oil, vital as Russia's best eventual supply line from the Allies. At Kerch, on the peninsula's extreme eastern end. only the Kerch Straits separate Crimea from Caucasus, and the Kerch Straits are only a little wider than the lower Dnieper, which the Germans bridged...
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...