Germany trying to capture Russian Black Sea harbours Anapa, Novorossisk and Tuapse according to the U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary dated 12 August 1942

An item referred to the comment of the J.I.C. that the German southwestward advance to the Russian Black Sea harbours Anapa, Novorossisk and Tuapse continued. The Luftwaffe intensified her attacks on the withdrawing Soviet forces.

Source

Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 245 dated 12 August 1942.