In August 1941, one rifle company threw plugging a hole in our defense in the area of Krivoy Rog. The task was set to pass the German tanks, until the last drop of blood. Roth drove to the place, shipped an entire lorry antitank grenade RPG-40, said that tanks tomorrow will probably be a lot and left. For all the tactical alignment of the men had to live less than a day. The commander inspected the area and ordered: "Shame on you, people to visit us from Germany are going, and we have the road so broken." "Crazy, probably from fear" - thought the soldiers. The commander continued: "Everyone shake all of knapsacks and me." Roth went to a nearby hill of slag from the road, taken out from a nearby Kryvyi Rih metallurgical plant, equipment which has been evacuated to Nizhny Tagil. The commander made to recruit in the slag and carry bags to the road.
At the very way the slag poured unevenly, more where the road goes in gorochku. "To them it was not slippery," - sentenced the commander. Drags the slag for a long time, all of the bags were torn to pieces, but failed to cover the slag almost two kilometers of the road. People angry and tired now because more and dig midnight. In the morning with shlakogor observers signaled: "I see tanks & quot ;.
Clutching his almost useless grenades, soldiers know that life is over. Finally, the tanks began to come to the "well-organized" way. The third tank columns lost caterpillar first, and a minute later the epidemic has swept the rest of the machine, the number eight. Stand-up tank, if not anger, safe thing. I did not immediately realize what is you ist das Germans killed a tow truck and tank. The infantry, the Germans are not bad, forward without the tanks will not go - the mash. Our run up to them, too, there is no reason.
Commander, formally carried out the combat mission to stop the tanks sent a messenger to find some bosses and pass: "The task is complete. No casualties. " The messenger brought the good news: "At night, you can leave behind the defense there. It will be possible, then we will cover the artillery »...
The secret lay in the commander of his education. In civilian life he was a technician for cold processing of metals.
Nikelshlaki same - high-alloy steel production waste - a terrible abrasive, only slightly inferior to corundum and alumina. No fingers caterpillars will not stand bullying such rubbish, and the caterpillar becomes unusable as a whole, taking with him a large part of the entire drive.
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