Reunion
30. August 1943
When we woke up the next morning, was our dear Uffz. Beckurtz before our tent. Bodenschatz would please also soon him with joy around the neck. He knew but now, where our spit was with the train vehicles. Peter Beckurtz reported, that they were the evening of yesterday's day in Ivanovo and had then made rebase. A few 100 m from our campsite away had spent the night they, without knowing, that we are in its neighbourhood.
I was not built in, We came to the Tross again. Who knows, where we had to go because with. I would be driven I alone and breadth rather even a day with the B through the country. Na, We went back to the baggage train and reported us at the main guard master. He and the small few people were certainly pleased, that the already lost B I operation itself had again met.
On this mornings we obtained still a position of prowess in a small wood. Our vehicles have been disguised and we made it ourselves comfortable in the warm sunshine. Since now our kitchen was again with us, We had to with potato Peel for 2 Battrien. The food should be managed to forward.
However we were disturbed many times in our peace by enemy Schlachtflieger, brummten about us across and later attacked a village, where was an important bridge. Russian hunters bustled about us. We shot several times with the carbine in the air. Because but the race had to be cleaned again and again and our spit “the dumb and useless Knallerei” prohibition, We have a shooting. Evening sailed on SS in this space. You should probably back to stabilize the situation. Also in our neighborhood were Pakgeschütze of them in a position. We are as times went and looked at the gun.
Still would be to mention, that during this day also the Luftwaffe several times appeared with strong powers. Several [Heinkel] He 111 Associations with 60 Machines flew in the battle area and occupied the enemy positions with bombs. Also a[n] I got to know type of aircraft, which I had seen yet. It was the Schlachtflieger [Henschel] HS 129. As a result of their ignorance we thought it only for enemy machines. We could well see, how this Schlachtflieger at low altitude over the enemy lines flew, continuously back and forth. This very powerful spukten their kews. I had the impression, as if our HS 129 dangerous for the Russians are, because it crossed Yes for a while through the enemy lines. In contrast to the [Iljuschin] IL 2, the distance come, throw their bombs and make that they disappear again.
