A machine gun nest inside the ruins of the (Stalingrad) tractor
factory. The Unteroffizier is armed with a Soviet 7.62mm Mosin-Nagant
M-1898/30 rifle, what the Germans called a Gew.252(r). The twisted and
shattered ruins provided cover and concealment to attackers and
defenders alike as protection from Post bekommen (receiving mail)
meaning receiving artillery fire
Road To Destruction-
Operation Blue And The Battle of Stalingrad 1942-43
Ian Baxter
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