High in the Arctic Circle a bitter war of attrition was fought in freezing
At 0620 hours covered by a brief barrage from 1000 guns
Superb figure study of the 82nd Airborne in 1944
In this important new painting
Forty Eight Hours, Wajsma, Central Russia, 11th - 12th December 1942 by David Pentland. REG56 High in the Arctic CircleDP0150. 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 they