Re: [Cz-L] Trafic tower

The Germans had to destroy the Czernowitzer airport before launching
the assault on the USSR. Also the railway station.
  By removing these two strategic obstacles the road to Stalingrad was open.

Hardy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: "Felix Garfunkel" <felixg1_at_prodigy.net>
Cc: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>; "CZERNOWITZ-L"
<Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 6:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Trafic tower

>I was told by my parents that the first military action taken by Germany
> when it attacked the Soviet Union in June of 1941, was to bomb the
> Czernowitz airport.
> Possibly they attacked both the railway station and the airport
> simultaneously
> and what people noticed first depends on where they were at the time.
> In the summer of 1941, we lived on the Blumengasse quite close to the
> airport.
>
> Mimi
>
>
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