A pre-emptive strike was required on the Red Navy dockyards at Poti in connection to the planned southern thrust by Axis forces. Luftwaffe sent 12 dive bombers and 16 fighters from Turkey, as with the raid on Sochi in 1944, to for fill the successful mission. Turkish and German troops would manage to land in Batumi and doggedly hold on to a 6km pocket of land fanning out from the city centre from the 4 to the 14th. As the Turkish Frigate Mustafa shelled out Batumi, it was badly damaged in a dual with the Soviet cruiser Perm, which was also moderately damaged in the conflict.This gave the German forces in the southern thrust a breathing space and helped divert Soviet forces from the on-going occupation of a by then rebelling Iran.
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| - A pre-emptive strike was required on the Red Navy dockyards at Poti in connection to the planned southern thrust by Axis forces. Luftwaffe sent 12 dive bombers and 16 fighters from Turkey, as with the raid on Sochi in 1944, to for fill the successful mission. Turkish and German troops would manage to land in Batumi and doggedly hold on to a 6km pocket of land fanning out from the city centre from the 4 to the 14th. As the Turkish Frigate Mustafa shelled out Batumi, it was badly damaged in a dual with the Soviet cruiser Perm, which was also moderately damaged in the conflict.This gave the German forces in the southern thrust a breathing space and helped divert Soviet forces from the on-going occupation of a by then rebelling Iran.
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| - A pre-emptive strike was required on the Red Navy dockyards at Poti in connection to the planned southern thrust by Axis forces. Luftwaffe sent 12 dive bombers and 16 fighters from Turkey, as with the raid on Sochi in 1944, to for fill the successful mission. Turkish and German troops would manage to land in Batumi and doggedly hold on to a 6km pocket of land fanning out from the city centre from the 4 to the 14th. As the Turkish Frigate Mustafa shelled out Batumi, it was badly damaged in a dual with the Soviet cruiser Perm, which was also moderately damaged in the conflict.This gave the German forces in the southern thrust a breathing space and helped divert Soviet forces from the on-going occupation of a by then rebelling Iran.
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