@CWO:
@Gargantua:
Battle of Berlin…
Going out in a blaze of glory from the good end of an MG42, against an unstoppable, uncountable, and insurmountable red horde that just keeps coming.
During the Battle of Berlin, there was a Russian tank crewman who put on a spirited one-man last stand. His tank had somehow gotten isolated during the street fighting for the city and was damaged by a German anti-tank round. All but one of its crew were killed. The surviving (though wounded) crewman kept working the main gun, loading and aiming and firing it by himself. When the main gun ran out of ammunition, or was wrecked by another enemy hit (I can’t remember which), the Russian proceeded to fire the tank’s machine gun at the nearby Germans. When that ran out of ammunition, he started lobbing grenades out of the tank to drive off the Germans who were pounding on the hull and demanding that he surrender. A fresh Soviet unit finally arrived and forced the Germans to retreat. The Russian soldiers got into the wrecked tank and found the last crewman inside. He was dying of his wounds, but he was holding a knife in his hand, ready to use it on any German soldier who had tried to enter the tank. After telling the other Russian soldiers what had happened, his final words were, “Thank you, comrades, for not leaving my body in the hands of the Fascists.”
Thats my last stand i would like
