BATTALION WIPED OUT
German Prisoner’s Account (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 13. Moscow radio reports that in the area north-west of Novo Sokolniki the. Germans are sustaining heavy losses in oftfensive actions • carried out by Soviet troops. A German soldier taken prisoner who belonged to the 103rd German Infantry Division said that his battalion, “which consisted of picked troops destined for special tasks, was put into the fighting on February 4. The battalion was practically wiped’out in two days, and out of the first company, which consisted of .180 troops, only eight remained. The report states that the Germans had converted the area between two villages into a centre of resistance, protected from the west and east by unfrozen marshes. Soviet artillery opened fire and Soviet infantry launched an attack from several directions at night. The resistance was broken, the garrison routed, and the centre of resistance occupied by the Soviet troops. Among the booty taken was a battery of artillery in good "order.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 119, 15 February 1944, Page 5
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