30th June, 1941-w of Rovno (Ukraine)299th Infantry division:
Shortly after dinner, something terrible happens. One of those damn
122-caliber cannons, which has been plowing around quite regularly,
crashed into Group Franke. As the foul smoke retreats, the horrible
sight is revealed. There amongst the chaos, between the tree trunks,
shards of metal, and pools of blood, lie eight dead comrades. Franke
himself lies half buried in the ground in a trench, staring obtusely
at the chaos. He lashes about at us as we try to dig him out, yelling:
poor guy is close to insanity. After a short time he passes out. He
smashed his arm. Life is funny, it was the last Russian shell that
fired that night!
.....Eastern Inferno-The Journals Of A German Panzerjager by Hans Roth
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