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...along the front from Leningrad south into the Kuban, Russian fighter planes roared up to give the Luftwaffe battle. Near Leningrad Russian fighters sent 25 Nazi bombers crashing into the scrub birches and soft brown earth...
...Hitler's third bid for victory in the east. All along the 1,500-mile front, artillery unlimbered. Moscow claimed 1,894 German planes destroyed in four weeks of intensive air battles. Each night some 200 Russian heavy bombers plastered Nazi communication centers. Counterattacking Germans in the Kuban were beaten back in fierce but local encounters. The Luftwaffe raided Kursk, lost 65 planes. Russia's Black Sea Fleet sank six bargeloads of Germans near Kerch...
Berlin reported the Russians massing troops for major operations in three strategic sectors: 1) south of Leningrad; 2) south of Moscow; 3) in the Kuban. No matter what the Russians did, Hitler would have to strike hard and soon in the south to secure the diminished, but still vast, Ukrainian grain crop so badly needed in Europe. With perhaps 500 divisions en gaged on both sides of the front, it might well be the biggest battle in history...
...nobility, in the new days the people of Russia had taken their vacations along that coast. Voyetekhov gives a paradisal picture of the peace he left behind him in the Caucasus: "Beside whitewashed, tin-roofed houses, on cottage chairs under cherry trees, were sitting the most beautiful Russian women-Kuban Cossacks." Voyetekhov went into Sevastopol aboard a destroyer at night, finding the half-wrecked city in flames. Milling around the dock were women & children whom the destroyer was to evacuate when it had unloaded its cargo of men and munitions for Sevastopol...
...Kuban drive, with another from the west against Nazi-held Taganrog, could deprive the Germans of springboards for counter-drives in the south...