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Panzergreandiere of 16. Panzer-Division arrive on the banks of the
Volga. A MaschinengewehrschOtze (machine gunner) carries his 7.92mm
MG-34 over his shoulder and his ErsatzstOcketasche 34 (replacement
parts pouch) on his right front belt. He is also armed with a Stg.24
st1ck hand grenade. Machine gunners were known simply as an Abzug
(trigger), as in triggerman.
The advanced units of that division had left the Don bridgeheads side
by side with 16th Panzer Division on 23rd August and moved off towards
the east. At noon, however, their ways had parted. Whereas the 16th
had continued towards the northern part of Stalingrad, Major-General
up covering positions along the Tartar Ditch in the Kuzmichi area.
The general was moving ahead with the point battalion. Through his
binoculars he could see goods trains being feverishly
unloaded at Kilometre 564, west of Kuzmichi.
"Attack!"
The motor-cyclists and armoured fighting vehicles of Panzer Battalion
103 raced off. Gunners of Army Flak Battalion 312 sent over a few
shells. The Russian columns dispersed.
The goods wagons contained a lot of useful things from America. These
had been shipped across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, through the
Persian Gulf, across the Caspian Sea, and up the Volga as far as
Stalingrad, and thence by railway to the front, to the halt at
Kilometre 564. Now these supplies were being gratefully received by
lorries, crawler tractors, jeeps, workshop equipment, mines, and
supplies and thousands of Camel cigarettes for the troops.
The tanks of the advanced battalion had continued on their way when
suddenly five T-34s appeared, evidently in order to
recapture the precious gifts from the USA. Their 7'62-cm. shells quite
literally dropped into the pea soup which was just
being dished up for the division's operations section. The general and
the chief of operations dropped their mess-tins and
took cover. Fortunately two tanks of the point battalion had got stuck
near the goods train with damaged tracks. They knocked out two of the
T-34s and saved the situation. The remainder turned tail.
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