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Peaceful Whitsuntide

Friday, 2. July 1943

It came before us like a godsend, that was the days and nights before and after Pentecost complete peace in the air. So we could recover us once quite and the stomach came away while also not bad. You were abundant at the evening high jinks Marketenderwere determined. You fulfilled its purpose in the right way. Late June / early July the enemy air activity decreased strongly. But still our flew [Heinkel] He 111 and [Junkers] Ju 88. Stock in the space of Orel. That was continuously. A fantastic sight was each time, If an Association of Ju 88 came back and the machines went one after another dive at depth. In these movements, I realized, that already a niedergehendes dive plane must have a harsh moral shock of the opponent. The weather was beautiful. Simply wonderful. One day as a heavy storm came once and since one got an electric shock when calling, flowing from a lightning. Since then the listener only with reluctance when thunderstorms was attacked. In the last days of June, I was my inducted into the B. Since then, I took part in the joys and sorrows of this community. After I have purchased there great self-confidence and sense of responsibility, What was me for my later life very useful.

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