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Last week, in the Caucasus, the Russians drove home the first major blow of the spring. Under an umbrella of air power, Red divisions stormed Hitler's vital Kuban bridgehead, crashed through Krimsk, 15 miles northeast of Novorossüsk, and split the German forces in two. Three hundred barges full of Red marines landed on the north shore of the Taman Peninsula, attacked the Germans from the rear. These successes endangered Hitler's last position on the eastern shore of the Black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: The First Blows | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

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