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Operation Kursk |
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Saunders fought fiercely in the battle of Kursk together
with his faithful dog, Olga. They drove out the remaining Germans hiding out in
Kursk’s war-torn houses by gathering together the worn-out, vagabond soldiers who had
fought in the bloody battle. With these soldiers, Saunders rebuilt a small but fierce
group of combat engineers. They went from house to house, slashing German throats as they
passed. But in the last stages of their
mission, tragedy struck. In one of the houses, Olga was taking unusually long to return.
When finally, one of Saunders’ men decided to go in and check, an explosion was heard
from within the house. The troops rushed in, but all they found was some black fur, a
half-eaten German frank, a torn leather strap and Olga’s bloody dog chain with the
badge awarded to her by Stalin himself. In the distance, the last German soldiers had
escaped safely into the woods.
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Incursion at stalingrad |
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Battle of Stalingrad
Saunders was an accidental hero at the Battle of Stalingrad. While
trying to decipher a mysterious message from FlyMolo who was atop a lookout tower, he saw
FlyMolo drop a grenade into the passing KoenigsTiger. Without thinking, he pulled a nearby
officer out of the way into safety, a split second before the shrapnel came flying in
their direction. He was later to realize that the officer whose life he saved was Major
Carter himself.
One house in Stalingrad was defended by a single platoon of
sergeant Pavlov and sergeant Saunders. Pavlov’s soldiers were holding the constantly
attacked house until the relief came. That intensive fighting was going on for 59 days.
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| At 7.45 on June 22, 1941 with Lt. Gorbazhev injured and
outnumbered by German tanks, Saunders destroyed an enemy machine by driving his KV into it |
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