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Toy soldiers and real battles: WW2: Battle of the Caucasus

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Thursday, May 23, 2019

WW2: Battle of the Caucasus

The Battle of the Caucasus is a name given to a series of Axis and Soviet operations in the Caucasus area on the Eastern Front of World War II. On 25 July 1942, German troops captured Rostov-on-Don, Russia, opening the Caucasus region of the southern Soviet Union, and the oil fields beyond at Maikop, Grozny, and ultimately Baku, to the Germans. Two days prior, Adolf Hitler issued a directive to launch such an operation into the Caucasus region, to be named Operation EdelweiƟ. German forces were compelled to withdraw from the area that winter as Operation Little Saturn threatened to cut them off. Red Army marines (Pegasus) are capturing the Wehrmacht Hanomag SdKfz 251 crew (Toy soldiers of San Diego).






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