Word: sevastopol
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Lacking air control, the Russians found it difficult, if not impossible, to reinforce Sevastopol from the sea, and the Germans had closed all the land approaches. Swarming Nazi bombers pounded at the Russians' bristling caves, at the city itself...
...August City" is what the Russians call Sevastopol, their great port and naval fortress on the Black Sea. It is not a big city (civilian pop.: 67,000), but it is a majestic town with cathedrals, palaces, a mighty harbor where all the warships in Europe could anchor, a holy "Common Grave" near by. That grave holds the dust of 127,000 Russians who died at Sevastopol in 1854-55, when Britain and her allies in the Crimean War besieged the city. Nine miles south of Sevastopol is the town of Balaklava, where the Light Brigade's 600 rode...
...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...
...city to demoralize besieged civilians. The Russians showed no signs of demoralization. Only the cold communiqués from Berlin, the warmer rhapsodies to valor from Moscow, indicated a slow Nazi ad vance. This week, on the eve of Hitler's second year in Russia, the question at Sevastopol was how much Nazi meat it would take to choke the grinder...
...Kharkov Front, the admitted Nazi superiority was even more ominous. There the Russians had unlimited airfield space. Only the demands of other fronts and Russia's military capacity limit the forces available to Marshal Semion Timoshenko. Except at Sevastopol, which made no demands because it could not be reinforced, the other fronts were comparatively quiet...