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    The siege of Sevastopol, also known as the defence of Sevastopol (Russian: Оборона Севастополя, romanized: Oborona Sevastopolya) or the Battle of Sevastopol...
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  • Siege of Sevastopol may refer to: Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855), during the Crimean War Siege of Sevastopol (19411942), during the Second World War...
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  • latter was not occupied until July 1942 (Siege of Sevastopol (19411942)) the rest of Crimea were also occupied in 1941 rendering the shipyards largely unusable...
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    Erich von Manstein (category Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords)
    forces in the siege of Sevastopol (19411942) and the Battle of the Kerch Peninsula, and was promoted to field marshal on 1 July 1942, after which he participated...
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    of 1941 before being taken again by the Germans during Operation Bustard Hunt on 8 May. The Siege of Sevastopol lasted 250 days, from 30 October 1941...
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    Filipp Oktyabrsky (category Members of the Central Auditing Commission of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks))
    given command of the Black Sea Fleet in March 1939 and headed its actions during the Sieges of Sevastopol (1941-1942) and Odessa (1941). After the war...
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    Lyudmila Pavlichenko (category Recipients of the Order of Lenin)
    Odessa on 15 October 1941, her unit was withdrawn by sea to Sevastopol, on the Crimean Peninsula, to fight in the siege of Sevastopol. There, she trained...
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    Black Sea. Due to its strategic location and the navigability of the city's harbours, Sevastopol has been an important port and naval base throughout its history...
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    The siege of Odessa, known to the Soviets as the defence of Odessa, lasted from 8 August until 16 October 1941, during the early phase of Operation Barbarossa...
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  • movie revolves principally around the events of the siege of Odessa and the siege of Sevastopol of 1941–42. The film is directed by Sergey Mokritskiy...
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    В СССР. 19411942" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 6 December 2010. Retrieved 8 November 2015. "Museum of the Defense and Siege of Leningrad...
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    Sevastopol. It was founded in 1854 as a temporary burial place for Russian soldiers and officers who were killed during the first siege of Sevastopol...
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  • II Siege of Sevastopol (19411942) – World War II Siege of Yenangyaung (1942) – World War II Siege of Stalingrad (1942–1943) – World War II Siege of Turjak...
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    Mount Sapun (category Landforms of Sevastopol)
    of Sevastopol, situated on the Crimean peninsula, occupied by Russia. It became the site of heavy fighting during the siege of Sevastopol (1941-1942)...
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  • American Experience in China. Glantz, David (2001), The Siege of Leningrad 1941–44: 900 Days of Terror, Zenith Press, Osceola, WI, ISBN 0-7603-0941-8....
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  • Islands campaign: Japanese occupation of Kiska. June 7 – WWII: Siege of Sevastopol (19411942): German forces of the 11th Army under General Erich von...
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    Sevastopol was obliterated by the Nazis, who even brought Schwerer Gustav to the Siege of Sevastopol (19411942). The Soviet naval base was one of the...
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  • siege of Sevastopol (19411942) Aleksandr Yevstafyevich Orel, Admiral, Commander of the Baltic Fleet Igor Vladimirovich Osipov, Admiral, Commander of the Black...
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    Second World War against the Kingdom of Iraq, then ruled by Rashid Ali al-Gaylani who had seized power in the 1941 Iraqi coup d'état with assistance from...
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    first class of Russian dreadnoughts. She was named after the Siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War. She was completed during the winter of 1914–1915...
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    Schwerer Gustav (category Siege artillery)
    of action. Five shells fired. 17 June Maxim Gorky Fortresses bombarded. Five shells fired. By the end of the siege on 4 July the city of Sevastopol lay...
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    conducted a 40-day siege. The crucial large natural harbor and port facilities of Manila Bay were denied to the Japanese until May 1942. While the Dutch...
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  • Hansgeorg Bätcher (category Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves)
    summer of 1942 he was engaged in the aerial assault of Sevastopol, and on July 2 he successfully carried out his 300th mission. In August 1942 his unit...
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    150km 100miles Port of Tobruk.    The siege of Tobruk (/təˈbrʊk, toʊ-/) took place between 10 April and 27 November 1941, during the Western Desert campaign...
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  • Brest Fortress Leningrad Stalingrad Odessa Sevastopol Moscow Kiev Novorossiysk Kerch Minsk Tula Murmansk Smolensk Hero City (Belarusian: горад-герой, Łacinka:...
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  • XXX Army Corps (Wehrmacht) (category Corps of Germany in World War II)
    German West Border and then took part in the Battle of France and the Balkan campaign. From June 1941, it fought for three years on the Eastern Front, first...
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    T-26 (category Light tanks of the Soviet Union)
    Leningrad in 19411942, during the Siege of Odessa (1941), the Battle for Moscow and the Siege of Sevastopol (19411942). A cutting of armoured plates...
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    Crimean Peninsula and took control of all of the peninsula by autumn (except Sevastopol, which held out until 3 July 1942). Ewald von Kleist's 1st Panzer...
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    Axis forces had conducted the Siege of Tobruk for eight months in 1941 before its defenders, who had become an emblem of resistance, were relieved in December...
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    continue holding out. However, after the siege of Sevastopol ended on 4 July 1942, with the German capture of the city, the German 11th Army was free to...
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