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Crimean Campaign

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The Crimea Campaign was an eight-month-long campaign by Axis forces to conquer the Crimea peninsula, and was the scene of some of the bloodiest battles on the Eastern Front during World War II. [1]

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Andrei Girich

Andrei Ivanovich Girich (Russian: Андрей Иванович Гирич; 28 December 1918 – 11 April 1973) was a Ukrainian Soviet Air Force major general and Hero of the Soviet Union.

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Axis powers

The Axis powers (Achsenmächte; Potenze dell'Asse; 枢軸国 Sūjikukoku), also known as the Axis and the Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, were the nations that fought in World War II against the Allied forces.

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Battle of Rostov (1941)

The Battle of Rostov (1941) was a battle of the Eastern Front of World War II, fought around Rostov-on-Don between the Army Group South of Nazi Germany and the Southern Front of the Soviet Union.

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Battlefield (TV series)

Battlefield is a documentary series initially shown in 1994 that explores the most important battles fought primarily during the Second World War and the Vietnam War.

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Bombing of Romania in World War II

The bombing of Romania in World War II comprised two series of events: until August 1944, Allied operations, and, following the overthrow of Ion Antonescu's dictatorship, operations by Nazi Germany.

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Bruno Bieler

Bruno Bieler (18 June 1888 – 22 March 1966) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany who commanded the LII Corps during World War II.

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Combat history of the T-26

Though nearly obsolete by the beginning of World War II, the T-26 was the most important tank of the Spanish Civil War and played a significant role during the Battle of Lake Khasan in 1938 as well as in the Winter War.

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Commanders of World War II

The Commanders of World War II were for the most part career officers.

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Crimea

Crimea (Крым, Крим, Krym; Krym; translit;; translit) is a peninsula on the northern coast of the Black Sea in Eastern Europe that is almost completely surrounded by both the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov to the northeast.

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Crimea Shield

The Crimea Shield was a World War II German military decoration awarded to military personnel under the command of Generalfeldmarschall Erich von Manstein who fought against Soviet Red Army forces and captured the Crimea region (Krim in German) between 21 September 1941 and 4 July 1942.

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Crimean campaign

Crimean campaign can refer to.

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Crimean Offensive

The Crimean Offensive (8 April – 12 May 1944), known in German sources as the Battle of the Crimea, was a series of offensives by the Red Army directed at the German-held Crimea.

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Crimean War (disambiguation)

Crimean War (1853–1856) was a conflict between Russia and the alliance of France, Britain, the Ottoman Empire, and Sardinia.

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Deportation of the Crimean Tatars

The deportation of the Crimean Tatars (Crimean Tatar Qırımtatar sürgünligi; Ukrainian Депортація кримських татар; Russian Депортация крымских татар) was the ethnic cleansing of at least 191,044 Tatars from Crimea in May 1944.

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Earl of Westmorland

Earl of Westmorland is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of England.

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Florence Nightingale Foundation

The Florence Nightingale Foundation (FNF) is a charity organisation in the United Kingdom that provides scholarships to nurses, midwives and other health professionals while serving as a living memorial of the work of Florence Nightingale.

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Franz Mattenklott

Franz Mattenklott (19 November 1884 – 28 June 1954) was a German general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II.

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Friedrich-Carl Rabe von Pappenheim

Friedrich-Carl Rabe von Pappenheim (5 October 1894 – 9 June 1977) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II.

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Günther Lützow

Günther Lützow (4 September 1912 – 24 April 1945) was a German Luftwaffe aviator and fighter ace credited with 110 enemy aircraft shot down in over 300 combat missions.

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Gordon Gollob

Gordon Max "Mac" Gollob (16 June 1912 – 7 September 1987) was a German fighter pilot during World War II.

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Hans Speth

Hans-Ludwig Speth (7 October 1897 – 30 April 1985) was a German general during World War II who commanded the 28th Jäger Division.

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Hartwig von Ludwiger

Hartwig von Ludwiger was a German general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II.

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Heinrich Bär

Heinrich "Pritzl" Bär (25 May 1913 – 28 April 1957) was a German Luftwaffe flying ace who served throughout World War II in Europe.

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Index of World War II articles (C)

# C-108 Flying Fortress.

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Karl Eglseer

Karl Eglseer (5 July 1890 – 23 June 1944) was a general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the XVIII Corps.

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Karl Kriebel

Karl Kriebel (26 February 1888 – 28 November 1961) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II.

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Kurt Lottner

Kurt Lottner (30 October 1899 – 15 March 1957) was a German general during World War II.

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List of generals of the Romanian Armed Forces

This article provides a list of general officers and field marshalls of the Romanian Armed Forces, along with an overview of their service, major battles and awards, and other select biographical details.

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List of World War II battles

This is a list of World War II battles.

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List of World War II evacuations

Several instances of evacuations (including both emergency evacuations and forced migrations) occurred during and after World War II.

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Livadia Palace

Livadia Palace (Ливадийский дворец, Лівадійський палац) was a summer retreat of the last Russian tsar, Nicholas II, and his family in Livadiya, Crimea.

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Marsfield, New South Wales

Marsfield is a suburb in the Northern Suburbs of Sydney, Australia.

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Maxim Gorky Fortresses

Maxim Gorky I and Maxim Gorky II (Russian designation: Coast Batteries #30 and #35) were coastal batteries used by the Soviet Union in the Crimea during World War II in the Crimean Campaign.

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Mihail Lascăr

Mihail Lascăr (born November 8, 1889 in Târgu Jiu, Romania; died July 24, 1959 in Bucharest, Romania) was a Romanian General during World War II and Romania's Minister of Defense from 1946 to 1947.

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Nazi–Soviet economic relations (1934–41)

After the Nazis rose to power in Germany in 1933, relations between Germany and the Soviet Union began to deteriorate rapidly, and trade between the two countries decreased.

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Perekop

Perekop is an urban-type settlement located on the Perekop Isthmus connecting the Crimean peninsula to the Ukrainian mainland.

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Romanian armies in the Battle of Stalingrad

Two Romanian armies, the Third and the Fourth, were involved in the Battle of Stalingrad, helping to protect the northern and southern flanks respectively of the German 6th Army as it tried to conquer the city of Stalingrad, defended by the Soviet Red Army in mid to late 1942.

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Romanian Naval Forces

The Romanian Navy (Forțele Navale Române) is the navy branch of the Romanian Armed Forces; it operates in the Black Sea and on the Danube.

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Romanian Navy during World War II

The Romanian Navy during World War II was the main Axis naval force in the Black Sea and fought against the Soviet Union's Black Sea Fleet from 1941 to 1944.

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Samad Abdullayev

Samad Hamid oglu Abdullayev (19205 November 1943) was an Azerbaijani Red Army Starshina and a posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union.

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September 1941

The following events occurred in September 1941.

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Siege of Sevastopol (1941–42)

The Siege of Sevastopol also known as the Defence of Sevastopol (Оборона Севастополя, transliteration: Oborona Sevastopolya) or the Battle of Sevastopol (German: Schlacht um Sewastopol) was a military battle that took place on the Eastern Front of the Second World War.

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Soviet cruiser Komintern

Komintern was a Soviet light cruiser originally named ''Pamiat' Merkuria'' (Memory of Mercury), a protected cruiser built for the Imperial Russian Navy.

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Soviet Union in World War II

The Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany on 23 August 1939.

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Strategic bombing during World War II

Strategic bombing during World War II was the sustained aerial attack on railways, harbours, cities, workers' housing, and industrial districts in enemy territory during World War II.

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Strategic operations of the Red Army in World War II

The strategic operations of the Red Army in World War II were major military events carried out between 1941 and 1945 on the Eastern Front or in 1945 in the Far East during the Second World War.

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Timeline of the Eastern Front of World War II

Below is the timeline of the events of the Eastern Front of World War II, the conflict between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1945.

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Werner von Eichstedt

Werner von Eichstedt (1 January 1896 – 26 August 1944) was a German general (Generalmajor) in the Wehrmacht during World War II.

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Wolf Hagemann

Wolf Hagemann (20 July 1898 – 12 September 1983) was a German general during World War II.

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Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen

Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen (10 October 1895 – 12 July 1945) was a German field marshal of the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) during World War II.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler

The 1st SS Panzer Division "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler", short LSSAH, (1.) began as Adolf Hitler's personal bodyguard, responsible for guarding the Führer's person, offices, and residences.

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25th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)

The 25th Rifle Division (25-я стрелковая дивизия) was a rifle division of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War, formed twice.

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271st Rifle Division

The 271st Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II.

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318th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)

The 318th Rifle Division began forming on June 15, 1942, in and near Novorossiysk on the coast of the Black Sea, as a standard Red Army rifle division; it was later re-formed as a mountain rifle division, but exactly when this happened is disputed among the various sources.

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320th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)

The 320th Rifle Division was formed in September, 1941, as a standard Red Army rifle division, based on an existing division of militia.

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321st Rifle Division (Soviet Union)

The 321st Rifle Division was formed in September 1941, as a standard Red Army rifle division, based on an existing division of militia.

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345th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)

The 345th Rifle Division began forming in September, 1941, as a standard Red Army rifle division, at Makhachkala on the Caspian Sea.

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486th Fighter Aviation Regiment

The 486th Fighter Aviation Regiment was a fighter regiment (IAP) of the Soviet Air Force.

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73rd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

The German 73rd Infantry Division was a German military unit which served during World War II.

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Battle of Crimea, Battle of Crimea (1941), Crimea Campaign, Crimean Campaign (1941-1942), Crimean Campaign (1941–1942), Crimean campaign (1941-1942), Crimean campaign (1941–1942).

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_Campaign

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