Indeed the 1st battle of Sevastopol was a bloody one in which the Germans miserably failed to take the city and the Kerch peninsula. However, by the time when Von Manstein arrived, his infantry divisions were too weakened, he did not have enough infantry, tanks nor artillery to take the city. And of course, winter was not helping much...

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