The death is knocking
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One of the most legendary stories about Winter war and soldier behind that story, Einar Schadewitz. And story goes like this:
Einar was middle of the very hard battlefield. Russian tank was coming to his direction. Einar jumped from his foxhole to top of tank. He did knock the tank hatch and shouted "Hey russians open up, it is death who is knocking". Russian tank crew open up hatched and Einar throwed grenade inside and jumped off from tank. Tank crew was destroyed.
This happened at Summa battlefield in Winter War, famous about super hard fighting ground. Einar earned his reputation as fearless fighter already in Winter War. And he did continue same way in Continuation War. In that war he did earn Mannerheim Cross, highest possible military decoration in Finland.
Book is written by Ville Kaarnakari, new shcool Finnish war historian. Book is quite short, and very easy to read.
But for sure worth of reading. Read about Einar's life story, how this famous story about knocking death happened, And other amazing battlefield acts by Einar.
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