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Glebovka, Russia 1943-02-04 (8 others)

Overview:

In the early morning hours, Soviet seaborne forces landed on the peninsula along the west side of the Ozerekya Bay. These forces were led by tank spearheads and quickly advanced towards Glebovka, where they came across a Romanian Mortar position set up in the vineyard of an old manor. As soon as the Romanians caught sight of the tanks, they abandoned both the wine cellar and their mortars. If the Russian commander had a larger force with him, Glebovka would have fallen to him; however, all he had was a platoon of tanks and a company of infantry. When Major Lahmeyer, commanding officer of the German Army Coastal Artillery Battalion 789, received news of the breakthrough, he immediately launched his 2nd Troop, supported by the battalion's machine-guns; however, the Russians were ready for them and pasted the counter-attacking Germans with their captured Romanian mortars. Major Lahmeyer thereupon got his 1st Troop to bombard the manor, and the vineyard, as the Romanian Captain Dabiji Nicolai with his 5th Company, then charged, and dislodged the Russians in fierce hand-to-hand fighting.

Defender: Russian (Soviet 255th Marine Brigade, Black Sea Fleet)  

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