Launch in the morning
9. May 1943
The enemy air activity was low at this time. Unliebsam raised were we only most 6. May, Schlachtflieger and Hunter in the early haze attempted, the air base attack. Until I came from my barracks, I had not control items, the everything was already past and of 2 called cm guns “Launch” and pointed to a plume of smoke rising from the ground. Immediately I had to with it. It was a more difficult way. We had to fight our path through swamp and scrub, before we came to the rescue machine. Some Landser and Russians were already lacking. The tail of this machine was some canceled 100 m back. Then came a long track of churning the ground, It forms from a landing, and at the end of this line, the machine was like a dead bird. Small bluish flames beat from the engine. The pilot wanted to probably still trying to come out. He was somewhat sideways next to his parachute. He, as well as the screen were angesengt, partly already burnt. It looked terrible and stank entirely from scheußlich. While we were so 2 Associations PE 2 [Petlyakov PE-2, light bomber]. Insgesamt etwa 30 Machines. Since ballooned even bombs on air base. We saw this on the hochsteigenden smoke- and dust pillars. However, the majority of the bombs fell on the adjacent fields. We have seen everything good that from our point of view. After all enemy aircraft had gone, We went to the very arduous way home. We took the dead pilot from his papers and a map, on the the early was exactly marked, We took to us. When we got back to our position, was once good breakfast for this morning excitement. It was my first bomb attack in the Association. Thank God we were doing yet out of danger. In the evening of that day my nerves should however again to a, This time something tougher sample provided.
