Battle of Crimea (1941)
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| Eastern Front |
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| Barbarossa – Finland – Leningrad and Baltics – Crimea and Caucasus – Moscow – 1st Rzhev-Vyazma – 2nd Kharkov – Stalingrad – Velikiye Luki – 2nd Rzhev-Sychevka – Kursk – 2nd Smolensk – Dnieper – 2nd Kiev – Korsun – Hube's Pocket – Belorussia – Lvov-Sandomierz – Balkans – Hungary – Vistula-Oder – Königsberg – Berlin – Prague |
| Crimea and Caucasus |
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| 1st Crimea – Kerch Peninsula – Adzhimushkay – Sevastopol – Edelweiss – Kuban Bridgehead – 2nd Crimea |
Crimea was the scene of some of the most bloody battles in World War II. The Germans suffered heavy casualties as they tried to advance through the isthmus linking Crimea to the Ukrainian mainland at Perekop in the summer of 1941. Once the Germans broke through, they occupied most of Crimea, with the exception of the city of Sevastopol (given the title of Hero City later). Sevastopol held out 25 days from the 7 June until 1 July,1942, when the Germans finally captured the city. In 1944 Sevastopol was recaptured by Soviet troops.
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