During the night of 13th/14th December (1941) a supply column of the
Cossacks, consisting of forty lorries, tried to get past the positions
of 229th Artillery Regiment, 197th Infantry Division.
The temperature was 36 degrees below zero Centigrade. The recoil
devices of many of the guns were frozen up. The lenses of the
gunsights were frosted over and blind. The gunners scored hits
nevertheless just by firing by eye. The Cossack column was smashed up
at point-blank range.
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