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...south the Germans threw their greatest effort against a little swampy neck of land only four miles wide. They were determined to crack the Perekop Isthmus and overrun the Crimean Peninsula, no matter what the cost...
Eastward their objective was Kerch, at the extremity of the peninsula-a likely spot from which to bomb, and perhaps from which to invade, the Caucasus...
...plan is to wait until spring to finish the Russian job, last week's action on the Russian front did not betray it. Hitler's armies had all the appearances of an army breaking its neck for the sake of quick victory. It stormed the Crimean Peninsula, hurled itself against Moscow's defenses, cleaned up industrial Kharkov, paused seemingly to gather its coils for a deadly new strike at Rostov-on-Don. These might be the final autumn battles...
...will look at a map of Eastern Asia you can readily see the strategic position of the Korean peninsula, and you can also imagine why Japan fought China in 1894, and Russia in 1904. Your conclusion will be-control of Korea...
Heavy German artillery at Kerch, the eastern harbor of the peninsula, could dominate the narrow straits and cut off whatever units of the Soviet Black Sea fleet might be left in the Sea of Azov...