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...Crimean War the British, French and Turks besieged Sevastopol for 329 days before the city fell. Last week, eight months after the Germans first approached Sevastopol, 23 days after Colonel General Fritz Erich von Manstein began his final assault, Berlin announced: "Sevastopol has fallen, over the bastion, city and harbor German and Rumanian war flags are flying." It was almost true. For two more days the killing went on. Under the wings of the Luftwaffe, from the city's bombed and blazing docks, the Russian Black Sea Fleet still rescued troops, commanders, wounded. In the streets, rear guards fought...
After their mauling before Sevastopol, Manstein's troops probably had to rest and refit, but the Luftwaffe air fleet could fly immediately to the Kursk-Kharkov fronts. Fritz Erich von Manstein had earned his quick promotion to Field Marshal...
...died and still attacked the deep defenses around the city. Leo Tolstoy's distant kinsman, Alexei, wrote in Red Star: "Now at Sevastopol there is no air fit to breathe because of the decaying bodies of German and Rumanians." Hitler's Colonel General Fritz Erich von Manstein drove his men ever closer, over the mounds of their dead, and a U.S. correspondent cabled: "The question at Sevastopol is not whether the Germans can take it, but how much they can afford...
Hitler's General Fritz Erich von Manstein had thrown some 100,000 men into this effort to smash Russia's last strong hold on the Crimea, to abolish the southern anchor of the long Russian front, to win command of the Black Sea, to open one gate to the oil-rich Caucasus. He also threw in planes, so many that the Russians soon—and ominously—admitted that the few Russian aircraft able to operate within Sevastopol's narrowed defense area were greatly outnumbered...