Noisy Artillery

9. September 1943

The next morning, Sunday, the 4. September 1943, was made in early again everything ready. We drove on and since it started popping up in a village before us, as if grenades slammed. All vehicles objected. Later it turned out, that there were explosions of the railroad tracks, that have been made by our services.

A passing vehicle of our Department threw some sack post in the ditch. Furthermore we have pleased us very. It was a boon particularly for the gun crews, to get greetings from home after the previous hard days.. We started some time later. Went through ruined villages and over dusty roads [It]. Where the Road stopped, had routes been extended through fields and meadows. Passing prowess positions of infantry and artillery. Past positions of heavy artillery, that morning we always internally by their launch pop let. Then we drove past light field artillery, She drew our attention by their shooting.

Now it was clear each of us, that we are in the battle area and probably a stand, about aims. In the course of the morning we taken a position on the edge of the village Staraya Buda. Buda Staraya, the name will be remained probably each of us measuring people due to his numerous and exciting Luftgefechte and for our Geschützbedienungen also as the place of heavy Erdkämpfe in memory.

Our first work in new positions is of course always position placing in our device. But this time we stopped reading our incoming post for important, as the hard work with the device. It was only dazwischenfahren Bodenschatz and remind us of our duty. We created a wall of abgestochenen turf slabs to the device and set up our tents finally. The first few days went by smoothly. Only once at night it went around and several times we hunkered down in our holes, because many bombs fell close to. During the day there was a wonderful weather and we broke out not in our work.

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