Battle of the Kerch Peninsula

The Battle of the Kerch Peninsula, which commenced with the Soviet Kerch-Feodosia Landing Operation and ended with the German Operation Bustard Hunt, was a World War II battle between Erich von Manstein's German and Romanian 11th Army and the Soviet Crimean Front forces in the Kerch Peninsula, in the eastern part of the Crimean Peninsula. It began on 26 December 1941, with an amphibious landing operation by two Soviet armies intended to break the Siege of Sevastopol. Axis forces first contained the Soviet beachhead throughout the winter and interdicted its naval supply lines through aerial bombing. From January through April, the Crimean Front launched repeated offensives against the 11th Army, all of which failed with heavy losses. The Red Army lost 352,000 men in the attacks, while the Axis suffered 24,120 casualties. Superior German artillery firepower was largely responsible for the Soviet debacle.

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Location: 45.25, 35.9833, KML, Cluster Map, Maps,
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1941 — 1942 Battle of the Kerch Peninsula

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1943 Kerch–Eltigen Operation

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Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
event	armed conflict	1941	Battle of the Kerch Peninsula	battle	Wikidata
event	armed conflict	1943	Kerch–Eltigen Operation	battle, Sergey Gorshkov, Ivan Yefimovich Petrov, landing operation, Lev Vladimirsky, Georgiy Kholostyakov	Wikidata