Forty Eight Hours, Wajsma, Central Russia, 11th - 12th December 1942 by David Pentland. (P) ART183 The British column of tanks

The British column of tanks failed to reach its objective

Signed by Oberfeldwebel Willi Reschke

Type 22 Beaver (F93)

Michael Wittman at the battle of Kursk

Grenadiers of the Foot Guards in Full Dress

Forty Eight Hours, Wajsma, Central Russia, 11th - 12th December 1942 by David Pentland. (P) ART183 The British column of tanksDP0150P. Forty Eight Hours, Wajsma, Central Russia, 11th 12th December 1942 by David Pentland. Wachtmeister Fritz Amling was a gun commander in 3rd Battery, Sturmgeschutz Battalion 202, in the Wajsma sector of the front at the start of the Soviet Operation Mars. During the first days fighting Amling, along with his gunner Bruno Guskowski, accounted for 24 enemy tanks, five of these in one minute! By the end of the second day, despite being wounded