Russia 1942 ▶ Battle for Sevastopol "Unternehmen Störfang" (Part 2/2) Schlacht um Sewastopol Fortress Crimea Krim Artillery Schwere Artillerie Eisenbahngeschütz "Thor" Erich von Manstein
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The Battle of Sevastopol (Russian Севастопольская оборона) was a battle fought from October 30, 1941 to July 4, 1942 on the German-Soviet front in World War II around the fortified seaport of Sevastopol.
Gordon Max "Mac" Gollob (b. June 16, 1912, Vienna; † September 7, 1987, Sulingen), Air Force fighter pilot. After the outbreak of World War II, Gollob was awarded the Iron Cross II Class on September 5, 1939, after several kills with his Messerschmitt Bf 110 in Poland. As a squadron pilot, he flew in the occupation of Norway. After several successes at Newcastle, Trondheim, Narvik and the Shetlands, he received the Iron Cross I Class. He then joined Jagdgeschwader 3 (Udet) on the English Channel. In 1941, Gollob became a captain and group commander on the Eastern Front. After 24 kills, he received the Cup of Honor on July 21, 1941, for special achievements in the air war. Six weeks later, on September 18, 1941, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross after 34 kills. After shooting down 81 opponents, he was awarded the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves on October 26, 1941. On May 20, 1942, he became commodore of Fighter Squadron 77. Within four weeks, he noted 107 kills and thus received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords on June 23, 1942, and was promoted to major soon thereafter. On August 30, 1942, he became the third soldier in the Wehrmacht to receive the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds, by which date he had become the first soldier to achieve 150 kills. He was then banned from flying by Hermann Göring and Adolf Hitler and transferred to Fighter Squadron 3 on the French Channel coast. Gordon M. Gollob flew a total of 340 missions, scoring 150 aerial victories, including 144 in Russia.
Fritz Erich von Lewinski called von Manstein (* November 24, 1887 in Berlin; † June 10, 1973 in Irschenhausen) was a German career officer, from 1942 in the rank of Field Marshal General. During World War II, von Manstein commanded corps, armies, and army groups before being transferred to the Führer Reserve in 1944. In 1945, he was initially taken prisoner of war. After his release from prison in 1953, von Manstein was the only former field marshal to serve as an unofficial advisor to the German government on the formation of a new army for the Bundeswehr until 1960. In February 1941, Manstein was given command of the LVI Army Corps (mot.) - as the later Panzer Corps were called until 1942 - which was also to be reconstituted. In this capacity, he had no knowledge of or influence on the strategic planning of the invasion of the Soviet Union. On September 12, Manstein was given command of the 11th Army, whose commander-in-chief, Generaloberst Eugen von Schobert, had fallen the same day. A little later, in cooperation with Ewald von Kleist's 1st Panzer Army and Romanian units, he defeated the troops of the Soviet Southern Front in the Battle of the Sea of Azov. Standing on the right wing of Army Group South, the next objective was the conquest of the Crimea. After the breakthrough of the 11th Army across the Perekop isthmus, Simferopol, Feodosiya, and Kerch were occupied in quick succession in November 1941, and a first attempt was made to capture Sevastopol; after its failure, the eight-month siege of the fortress began. In Simferopol in December 1941, in the infamous Simferopol Massacre, close to 14,000 Jews were murdered within a few days by SS men and members of the Feldgendarmerie Abteilung 683. This order by Manstein was strongly motivated by the miserable food situation of the population, because Manstein feared possible hunger revolts, which he saw as a danger to his planned attack operations. Therefore, he urged Einsatzgruppe D with its responsible Sonderkommando 11b to carry out the liquidation of the Jews and Roma living in Simferopol, which had been planned for March 1942, before Christmas. Thus, on December 6, the decision was made to immediately murder these people, who were also considered "useless eaters", in the Simferopol massacre. Manstein after his promotion to colonel general, March 1942 In May 1942, Manstein, who had previously been promoted to colonel general, succeeded in destroying the Soviet troops landed on the Kerch peninsula in eastern Crimea in the Trappenjagd enterprise, and a little later in a second, this time successful, attempt to conquer Sevastopol. For this he was appointed field marshal general on July 1.

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