Word: taman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the marshy coastal plain of the Taman Peninsula rumbled hundreds of Soviet tanks and guns, perhaps 150,000 men. They cracked through Field Marshal Fritz von Manstein's defenses, pushed the Germans slowly back toward the narrow Kerch Strait, separating the Crimea from the Caucasus. Berlin radio claimed 61 Russian tanks knocked out one day, 59 the next, but admitted retreat: "In view of continuous Soviet attacks, it proved necessary to adopt a particularly elastic warfare...
...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...
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