LAST BATTLE
ON TAAIAN PENINSULA MANY GERMANS CUT OFF. NUMBERS DRIVEN INTO SEA & DROWNED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.35 a.m.) RUGBY, October 10. Further details of Russian victory on the Taman Peninsula show that the Soviet troops, in a violent charge, broke into the last German defended positions and that Soviet tanks succeeded in reaching the shores of the peninsula, Thereby pushing the Germans back and liquidating them. Eight invasion barges, overcrowded with enemy infantry, were sunk and great numbers of German troops were literally driven into the straits and drowned. Thousands of dead were left on a promontory jutting out into the sea.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 October 1943, Page 3
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