rich 1.0 Crimea was a critical asset to hold for Germany's plans for its summer 1942 offensive. Especially its best harbour, and the base for the Soviet Black Sea Fleet: Sevastopol. Map: The Battle of Sevastopol, 1942 Figure 1: Western Crimea by satellite. Severnaya Bay is the long, narrow estuary going east from the Black Sea. Sevastopol is in the narrow bay that comes south from it. Figure 2: Sturmgeshutz III "StuG III" self-propelled assault gun Figure 3: Goliath disposable explosive vehicle Figure 4: Thor's brother, Karl-Geralt super-heavy mortar Figure 5: An unexploded 600-mm shell in Crimea, 1942 Figure 6: Dora, the biggest gun ever made, firing 800 mm shells  Figure 7: The sunken Abkhazia transport ship in Sevastopol Harbour, 1942 Hosted on Acast. See https://acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Ausha. See https://ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information. Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2 https://audioboom.com/channels/5173732-beyond-barbarossa-the-eastern-front-of-world-war-2 Audioboom https://audioboom.com 480 95 https://audioboom.com/i/43762569/600x600/c 600 600 <iframe width="100%" height="95" src="https://embeds.audioboom.com/posts/8933054/embed?v=202301" style="background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; width: 100%" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="allowtransparency" scrolling="no" title="Audioboom player" allow="autoplay" sandbox="allow-downloads allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation"></iframe>