Charles Stephenson

Nov 1, 2023 | usni.org | Mark Carlson |Charles Stephenson |Eric L. Mills |Norman Polmar

The Black Sea city of Sevastopol was enduring a bitter cold on the evening of 29 October 1955. Seemingly since its founding in 1783, the port city had been touched by war and plague, prosperity and famine. Exactly a century before, the city was under siege for three months by the British Army during the Crimean War. From 1941 to 1942, the city was bombarded by German shells as Nazi forces marched into the Soviet Union.