At least the Jaroschek boys are all alive.
For now and, hopefully, it'll stay that way (same with the Sullivan brothers ITTL)...
At least the Jaroschek boys are all alive.
Two of them have brushes with deaths... hope the third one wont get unlucky.For now and, hopefully, it'll stay that way (same with the Sullivan brothers ITTL)...
Leningrad, March 24, 1943
Tatianna checked her rifle one last time. She glanced at her spotter. She took in the rest of the rifle battalion. They had been on the front line for two weeks. Little beyond normal patrolling and constant vigilance had happened. A fascist company had tried to take an observation post and that evolved into a six hour fire fight. The fascist platoon was able to eventually retreat once half a dozen tanks had arrive.d
She pressed her back up against the wall of the trench complex. Her helmet that she seldom wore was heavy on her head. Someone a few meters down the line started to talk about the relief that he was getting on the next rotation to the rear. She could use some relief too, it had been a while. Suddenly the sound that the entire battalion had been waiting for erupted. Four dozen guns started to fire. Half were firing smoke, the other half were firing high explosive shells at mapped German positions. She got onto her feet and began to jog to the rear. They had been relieved, and now the front was some other battalion’s problem
Two hours later, she had hot soup, dry socks and a soft bed all to herself.
The third is an infantryman in Tunisia who will soon be trying to remember how the town upriver speaks as some of those words could be quite useful... and the fourth is aboard a US battleship.Two of them have brushes with deaths... hope the third one wont get unlucky.
Sofia is in Bulgaria ^^'
Unless Romania invaded Bulgaria in a turn of events I haven't read
Now they would be trying to lame elephants with throwing javelins.
I was watching nature documentaries with my kids last nightIs that an actual German idiom or something you coined just now? Either way, I'm stealing it.
Durban, South Africa March 28, 1943
The Dutch coastal defense ship Soerabaja pulled into the harbor. The old, small, obsolete ship was undermanned. Most of her experienced crew had been sent ashore at Batavia to replenish the ranks of the crews of the few still functional Dutch cruisers and the destroyers that still made up the colonial fleet. She was alone, and almost unarmed. Work gangs would spend two weeks stripping the cruiser of anything useful before the skeleton crew took her through the Atlantic to a West Coast port where she would be temporarily used as a barracks ship while her fate as a block ship was deferred.