Cape Chersoneze in the Crimean offensive, the area in front of and behind the walls that were breached by Soviet forces on May 12, 1944, was littered with helmets, rifles, bayonets, and other weapons and equipment, from the thousands of dead German soldiers on the ground.

　　Cape Chersoneze in the Crimean offensive was destroyed by Soviet troops on May 12, 1944, and the area in front of and behind the walls was filled with thousands of shell craters and scorched by Soviet artillery fire. Hundreds of German vehicles lay on the ground. The ground was littered with helmets, rifles, bayonets, and other weapons and equipment from thousands of dead German soldiers. Soviet soldiers accumulated the remnants of the German army in large piles. The ground was also littered with scraps of documents, including photographs of German soldiers, personal papers, maps, and personal letters. The sea around the lighthouse, which was almost entirely filled with corpses and left in ruins, was littered with the corpses of German soldiers and the remains of rafts at the tip of Cape Chersonezh.

　On the Eastern Front of World War II, the Crimean Offensive (April 8-May 12, 1944) was an offensive by the Soviet Red Army against German-controlled Crimea. The Soviet Red Army's Fourth Ukrainian Front engaged the German 17th Army of the South Ukrainian Army Group, consisting of the Wehrmacht and the Romanian Army. The German and Romanian forces suffered considerable losses while withdrawing from the Crimean offensive.

　On May 5, 1944, Soviet forces launched a general assault on their base in Sevastopol, Crimea. Soviet forces liberated Sevastopol on May 9 after about four days of heavy fighting. About 30,000 remnants of the defeated German 17th Army fled to Cape Chersoneze in the Crimea. In pursuit of the Germans, the frontline troops were assigned the Soviet Army's 19th Tank Corps, which immediately invaded the defensive line covering Cape Chersoneze. The Germans stoutly defended themselves so that they could be relieved from the waters of the Black Sea. The Soviet Black Sea Fleet, front-line artillery, and air units prevented the Germans from evacuating. Raising their forces, the Soviet front line troops broke through the last German defenses on Crimean land and defeated them on May 12. Ultimately, some 21,000 German soldiers were captured at Cape Chersoneze, and large quantities of weapons and armaments were captured.

　On May 12, 1944, Soviet artillery and the 10th Rifle Corps of the 51st Army opened fire on the Germans at Cape Chersoneze. After the bombardment, the Soviet troops broke through the German defenses. By 7AM, units of the 51st Soviet Army controlled the entire coast of Streetskaya Bay, Kruglaya Bay, and Kamishevaya Bay. The Soviet Coastal Army and 19th Tank Corps cleared the Germans from Cape Chersoneze by 10 A.M. By 12 A.M. on May 12, the last German resistance at Cape Chersoneze was crushed, ending the Strategic Offensive in the Crimea, which had lasted from April 8 to May 12, 1944. Soviet forces broke through the Perekop isthmus in the Sevastopol area, the Kerch Peninsula, and the deeply stratified defenses of the German Army, defeating the German 17th Field Army. During the Crimean offensive, Soviet forces lost approximately 17,754 men killed and 67,065 wounded in action. German troops lost about 31,700 killed and 33,400 wounded. Romanian troops lost approximately 25,800 killed and 5,800 wounded.