English Translation

Fortunately, the Be . . . at this point is not deep, so that the storm gun rises out of the floods. 4-Obersturmführer T. tries to get out quickly despite his painful facial burns. But the hatch is rammed with fallen beams. After much effort he creates a gap through which he slowly pushes through. He climbs over the rubble in the direction of the rear shore. At this moment the Soviets seem to have waited on the other side of the shore. The bullets constantly whistle around his ears. Meter by meter he works back. In spite of his heavy burns, the Obersturmführer did not allow one of his men to be put in danger of being shot by the Soviets lying in wait when they left the assault gun and afterward while they were getting help. The battery chief drives in the second assault gun, which followed the first in a small distance, while the others followed at greater distances. At the moment of detonation, it was ten meters on the bridge, which remained undisturbed at this point. He manages to go back to the solid land; seventy meters backwards a anti-tank gun is set up, which holds down the still firing enemy. The battery chief sets out with six men, who immediately volunteer to get the three locked up in the first assault gun. It is fogged, and the plan succeeds. A man is wounded in the process. 4-Obersturmführer T. is driven to the regiment staff at a certain distance and treated there by the doctor because of his burns. But an hour later, despite his increasing pain, he returns to the river to convince himself once again that the storm shooter has indeed passed the monstrous sample undamaged. It leaves him no rest, and when it is brought out again, he takes over the command as if nothing had happened again. He shrugs with his armpits: "A small, unpleasant disturbance, nothing more!" He makes a face as if he had to apologize for the delay as if it were his fault. What else would be to say about a man who, in three days with two shields, took out twenty-four tanks, twelve anti-tank guns and five open guns?