Battery completely
3. September 1943
At 3. soon our spit right found it, again rebase to make. It returned again to Baltutino and then on. Soon our small column waved off to the right, again in the green forest. There we set up us again comfortably. How beautiful we had I there yet with the B in the last few days. We have resumed and sold us the time to all possible stuff, While experienced our Geschützbedienungen some excitement and sleepless nights.
Suddenly came on the afternoons 2 Man from our battery to us. A driver and a Kradmelder. Filthy and shipping speckt they looked. Vehicles they had of course no more. You were somewhere in the gutter. They reported very nice stuff. The two guys had very good fight out, until they finally had found the position of the prowess. Also they were continue to say nothing about the fate of the battery.
For a change, we sent on some people of our operation, the times the surrounding villages wanted to watch, whether because organize something there. When they did too long, should I go to search, and they heimholen. I'm going to leave. Up the first Hill. Nothing to see. The second Hill up. Since I saw in the distant some villages. You were me but too far to go. So I went to when things again. And that was good, because as I to serve came back, you just made everything to the descent finished. I asked whether the Russians are coming, or whatever else actually going. Then it answered me: “The battery is here!”
In fact, our combat battery was constructed near vorbeiführenden road. We thought back now it outputs something. But far from. When all train cars were marschbereit we went with the battery closed further forward. On the road was still a [Petljakow] PE-2 Combined distance and threw the bombs in a far away from the village. 8,8 Flak shot down some machines. Our boss told us a few hours later, that a rescue machine was controlled by a woman and that she would have asked after their capture, If she would shot! In this example, you can see, that the Russians also have instilled the baiting their people: The Germans shoot immediately all prisoners. And why had Russia used women as pilot. Had this rich country already at that time lack of well-trained soldiers?
After a ride through deep gorges and steep, dangerous roads we came after Glinka, a small town on the railway line Yelnya Smolensk, 70 km from Smolensk. Since this place until the afternoon of the PE 2 Association was attacked, was the place extinct total. Our boss was no good night and we returned to, until we set up our tents at night in a well. The front was not more distant, We at the numerous flares and the screaming of the fog Launcher launches saw this and the dull roar of the impacts was quite near the front us know. I will report later about the ground fights of our firing battery.
