20. Dezember 1943
The next morning, the call shrills through the village again: “Tanks from the left!” I rush out of my quarters. Russian tanks again, a whole dozen of them.[1] And our assault guns are gone. The Reds are coming out of a wide hollow that opens up on the left towards the village. Strictly speaking, they are already coming from the left-rear, and are rolling directly towards the 10.5 light fielkd howitzer battery standing at the end of the village, which inflicted such heavy losses on them yesterday. Whether that’s why they want to destroy it, or whether they want to attack the village from the flank anyway, I don’t know. Now there are already fifteen tanks. But they are received by the battery with thunderous fire. Our IG platoon, which has its positions in the rear of the village, also provides fiery support. The battle is brief. We count the eleventh kill when the remaining tanks turn and disappear.
Nevertheless, this second attack dampens our confidence of victory a little. After all, yesterday the Bolsheviks overran 9. Kompanie on our left wing, occupied the neighbouring village and thus achieved a small breach from which they could attack Boshidar from the flank today. So caution is called for.
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- ↑ Acc. to KTB PzAOK 1, NARA T-313 Roll 64 Frame 7300355/66, 5 tanks entered Boshidar directly from the west and were destroyed. There were further attacks in other places.