Soviet Storm: WW2 in the East

Season 1, Episode 16

Episode Title: The Defence of Sevastopol

Air Date: 2014-05-07

Overview:

Hitler’s 1941 invasion of the USSR ran into some its fiercest resistance at the Black Sea ports of Odessa and Sevastopol, where Soviet elite naval infantry brigades fought doggedly to hold back German and Romanian troops. At Sevastopol, a long and bloody siege unfolded, causing the Germans to bring in some of the biggest artillery guns ever used.