When the Soviets and Germans conducted landings such as in the Crimea and Estonian islands how were the troops got ashore? Did they use landing-craft such as the Western Allies did or ships-boats? edit, just found this.
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When the Soviets and Germans conducted landings such as in the Crimea and Estonian islands how were the troops got ashore? Did they use landing-craft such as the Western Allies did or ships-boats? Soviets have no special landing crafts. So, ordinary ships and boats were used. Heavy equipmens were landed from transport ships, or were towed on special pontoons after smaller ships... regards, Alex
I have read a number of articles by David Katz, a South African, so often I have the free version of academia.com and today it offered an entire book 'Contested Shores: The Evolving Role of Amphibious Operations in the History of Warfare', from Marine Corps University Press; with a chapter on The Kerch-Eltigen Landing, 1943. The landing started in November 1943 and ended with the taking of the city of Kerch in April 1944. An earlier operation 26 December 1941–19 May 1942 was defeated and - the author states this is well known. Now a few years ago I spent two days @ Kerch, visiting a museum at the landing beach, next to a Soviet era workers hotel and inspecting other sites. Kerch then was in the Ukraine and is now where the bridge across the straits link Russian-occupied Crimea to the Kuban peninsula, Russia,
The Russians made landings, mostly small ones along the coast of the Barents Sea in 1941 - 1944. They mainly used fishing boats and guard boats. At least in the Gulf of Finland, armored gunboats as fire support ships, with tank turrets as their main armament. The maps are from the Naval Museum at Murmansk
