By August, the division could see the spires of Leningrad in the distance. The air grew cold, and the "White Nights" of the north gave the landscape an eerie, never-ending twilight.
During a night assault on a Soviet supply depot, Kurt watched the division’s logistical genius in action. Even as they fought, fuel trucks and ammo carriers moved among the tanks under the cover of darkness. The 1st Panzer was a self-contained city of steel, always moving, always hungry for the next objective. The Gates of Leningrad Achtung Panzer, Marsch! With the 1st German Pan...
By the second day, they reached the Dubysa River near Raseiniai. It was here that Kurt saw the face of a new kind of war. Emerging from the treeline was a Soviet monster—the KV-2. It was a massive, slab-sided tank that dwarfed their Panzer IIIs. By August, the division could see the spires