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Title
Beachhead at Ozereyka Bay
Description
In an effort to cut off the Seventh Army's retreat to the Iaman Peninsula, Stalin devised a plan to use a combined land and seaborne operation. The Black Sea Fleet would land a force composed of army and naval troops in the German's rear. The landing point chosen was the …
Publisher
Date
1943-02-04
Scenario#
224
A026
Scenario Description
In an effort to cut off the Seventh Army's retreat to the Iaman Peninsula, Stalin devised a plan to use a combined land and seaborne operation. The Black Sea Fleet would land a force composed of army and naval troops in the German's rear. The landing point chosen was the area around Ozereyka Bay. After heavy naval bombardment, the first Russian assault waves landed on the beach in front of Rumanian coastal defense units and formed up for the push towards the town of Glebovka, their first inland objective.
Location
Glebovka, Russia
Battle Narrative
The Battle of the Caucasus is a name given to a series of Axis and Soviet operations in the Caucasus area on the Eastern Front of World War II. On 25 July 1942, German troops captured Rostov-on-Don, Russia, opening the Caucasus region of the southern Soviet Union, and the oil fields beyond at Maikop, Grozny, and ultimately Baku, to the Germans. Two days prior, Adolf Hitler issued a directive to launch such an operation into the Caucasus region, to be named Operation Edelweiß. German forces were compelled to withdraw from the area that winter as Operation Little Saturn threatened to cut them off.
Narrative Source
Combatants
Russian
Axis
Additional Information
Scenario Type = Standard
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