Here today, tomorrow there
26. August 1943
Middle during packaging of the device, a boxer came as long remaining post. This was but a mountain of packages, Letters and newspapers. When we had then charged everything and even had increased, We found time to open the packages only. And then was cost of everything and everyone got something from.
Then as quickly as possible, we made, that we bodly from this position, because we saw, how an other Flakbatterie in the fire was hostile artillery. Our way ran again across the zerwühlte and open road into to Yelnya, where we arrived at the beginning of the night. We drove further. Soon, our chef for this night but ordered final stop, because Russian bombers attacked the area and scattering their bombs indiscriminately in the area. It jumped in the ditch and there was wait for the command to the continuing.
As the air was again pure, It went on. The road was covered with sand high. The vehicle wheels are produced in the sand and some followers, for example. the KDO-Hi device [“Command support unit”], floated at greatest risk, that the expensive box umkippte. But it all went well, and in the morning, we achieved without failure Pochinok. Then it went to the beautiful paved road to Smolensk. Shortly before that we were still on a State[s]good rest. By Smolensk, the battery was closed, and it not attracted little look up, as the heavy tractors with their freezing chain noise and cheerful, singing soldiers on it, braußten through the busy streets.
I will say it right, it again went to Yartsevo. Just next to our position we show off and made the battery feuerbereit. We did not know only, why we came just after Yartsevo. The front was 15 km and was currently calm. It will have been so, If you with a unit did not know where, you put it after Yartsevo. There was not much to shoot.
One night, during the watch, I got to know the thunderstorm in the infinite Russian lands. Convulsing flashes and Flash Feuerscheine lit up the pitch black night into day. Terribly booming Thunderclaps echoed through the night. This includes a huge Platschregen, he instantly turned the loamy Earth into a tough sludge. I was glad, as I was able to return in the tent. In the tent it was dry, The tarpaulins held tight.
