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Old May 5th, 2008, 12:20 AM
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Default Re: THE RED ARMY INFANTRYMAN

I'm still looking for the articles, it was a long time back and the siye may not be on the internet anymore. It had 4 or 5 personal accounts of soldiers from various battles.

One told of the battle close to Ponri in the northern part of the Kursk bulge. They were fighting over a small farm on a hill with several buildings. The germans were in posesion of of the main house and the front slope of the hill the Russians were in the barn and a small shed and the opposite side of the hill. It was a terrible fight with both sides attacking and counter attacking all day. The final exchange happened when a german officer saw his men were flagging during another attack and he ran from his hole and led the charge. A soviet officer saw this and did the same thing. As it turns out the germans were too beat up to continue and after their officer was wounded they retreated to front of the hill and the russian soldiers got the top of the hill.

There is a lot of good, brave officers also, on all sides.
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