Damn It

Southwestern Front, Donbass, February 1943. A combat crew of an anti-aircraft gun under the command of Senior Sergeant Bodenkov is firing at enemy positions. The battery commander, senior lieutenant A.N. Tolstov, thanks the gun commander and the entire crew for their good service. A group of German pilots - crew members of the downed Henkel-111 bomber (the plane was delivering ammunition to the surrounded German garrison in Chertkovo), taken prisoner; among them - pilot-lieutenant Cottrit Venil, mechanic non-commissioned officer Hermann Ruttlat, radio operator non-commissioned officer Rudolf Welsh, shooter non-commissioned officer Kurt Ferr. Soviet soldiers escort captured German pilots. February 16, 1943, Chertkovo. Destroyed and burning houses, destroyed railway station and depot buildings. Residents of the city on one of the streets. Destroyed German tanks and vehicles on the streets of the liberated city. Two Soviet cavalrymen are riding past the cemetery. The convoy of the Red Army passes through the city. Types of damaged artillery pieces and German bunkers in the vicinity of Chertkovo, where fierce battles took place.

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1943