Memories former Luftwaffe servicemen about service Soviet antiaircraft gunners defenders Stalingrad.

Memories of former Luftwaffe servicemen about the service of Soviet anti-aircraft gunners to protect Beketovka. ... Colonel Rudel Hans Ulrich. From the book, Pilot Stuff. ... Several times we attack targets near Beketovka. Here the anti-aircraft fire is especially strong, and therefore each flight is difficult. According to the testimony of the prisoners, the crews of the anti-aircraft guns here consist exclusively of women. When our pilots receive the order to fly to Beketovka in the morning, they always say: “Today we are going on a date to the anti-aircraft gunners.“ There is no irony in these words, since everyone who has flown there knows how exactly they shoot. ... Feldwebel Fritzsche Klaus. From the book, The goal is to survive, Six years behind barbed wire. ... We were taken by train to the partially restored main station of Stalingrad. Passing the Beketovka station, we saw an endless field, on which the remains of downed and crashed German planes were piled in heaps. My heart sank at the sight of those remains of our aviation pride. A large number of the fuselages that remained intact were adapted by people for housing.