Forty Eight Hours, Wajsma, Central Russia, 11th - 12th December 1942 by David Pentland. (B) BAT132 Grofsherzogthum - Baden Cavallerie

Grofsherzogthum - Baden Cavallerie

38 Snooks IV ½

Lt Col Ernest Bankey (deceased)

Some of the pilots were on the initial Operation Granby deployment

whilst the great Zeppelins offered themselves as huge

Forty Eight Hours, Wajsma, Central Russia, 11th - 12th December 1942 by David Pentland. (B) BAT132 Grofsherzogthum - Baden CavallerieDP0150B. Forty Eight Hours, Wajsma, Central Russia, 11th 12th December 1942 by David Pentland. Wachtmeister Fritz Amling was a gun commander in 3rd Battery, Sturmgeschutz Battalion 202, in the Wajsma sector of the front at the start of the Soviet Operation Mars. During the first days fighting Amling, along with his gunner Bruno Guskowski, accounted for 24 enemy tanks, five of these in one minute! By the end of the second day, despite being wounded