09-24-2013, 08:45 AM
Next part, from page 354:
"It's safer on the Artillery street, but even tough, Józef Masiuk, chief of the AAR company, when joined his company with food, was wounded, and not by a fragment, but by a sniper's bullet.
"The pigeoners" sit in their nests and deal damage.
So he lays in the street, clost to the "long house" and thinks how to survive. It's good he had manager to give one granade bag to corporal Bronisław Hojszyk, who managed to get to the house.
The mud he is laying in is cold, but he feels hot when he observes the sniper's bullets hitting nearby. That bastard doesn'tlet him getup and move. And the safe place - the house is so close!
After few minutes, an artillery shell hits nearby. Wounded Masiuk gets hit by a fragment. A fear takes him over. "They will finisz me off here!" His neck and arm are bleeding.
Finally, the fire stops. From the "long house", a medic crawls. He bandages his arm.
'Let's go chief, we have to crawl, there's no other way.'
Masiuk, who fought in 1939, is a man with military experience. He knows how to crawl. They reached the door.
Here, through the basement, through the hole made by the artillery fire 2 days earlier he gets to the safe area. The doctor treats him and directs to the hospital.
'I can walk doctor. I would prefer to stey in the regiment. Haven't seen the sea yet and it's so close...'
The doctor is not surprised - it's not the first time someone asks for that.
'In 1939 in the army I sang about the Baltic. How we will guard it. We didn't manage than. Maybe now...' He doesn't have to finish.
'Alright. Just keep coming for the bandage change.'"
Page 557:
"Józef MAsiuk, chief of company, wounded, but not sent to hospital thanks to his asks has reached the sea. He remembers how he sang in 1939 in NDB "We will guard You faithfully [our sea]"."
And a note from the book's final chapter:
"Masiuk Józef, son of Piotr (1920), corporal, 14th Inf. Rgt. The company chief who didn't want to hide behind collegues' backs. Awarded with the Cross of the Brave, Sgt. of the reserve. Works in "Wałbrzych" Factory as a Benzol destiller. Lives in Wałbrzych"
"It's safer on the Artillery street, but even tough, Józef Masiuk, chief of the AAR company, when joined his company with food, was wounded, and not by a fragment, but by a sniper's bullet.
"The pigeoners" sit in their nests and deal damage.
So he lays in the street, clost to the "long house" and thinks how to survive. It's good he had manager to give one granade bag to corporal Bronisław Hojszyk, who managed to get to the house.
The mud he is laying in is cold, but he feels hot when he observes the sniper's bullets hitting nearby. That bastard doesn'tlet him getup and move. And the safe place - the house is so close!
After few minutes, an artillery shell hits nearby. Wounded Masiuk gets hit by a fragment. A fear takes him over. "They will finisz me off here!" His neck and arm are bleeding.
Finally, the fire stops. From the "long house", a medic crawls. He bandages his arm.
'Let's go chief, we have to crawl, there's no other way.'
Masiuk, who fought in 1939, is a man with military experience. He knows how to crawl. They reached the door.
Here, through the basement, through the hole made by the artillery fire 2 days earlier he gets to the safe area. The doctor treats him and directs to the hospital.
'I can walk doctor. I would prefer to stey in the regiment. Haven't seen the sea yet and it's so close...'
The doctor is not surprised - it's not the first time someone asks for that.
'In 1939 in the army I sang about the Baltic. How we will guard it. We didn't manage than. Maybe now...' He doesn't have to finish.
'Alright. Just keep coming for the bandage change.'"
Page 557:
"Józef MAsiuk, chief of company, wounded, but not sent to hospital thanks to his asks has reached the sea. He remembers how he sang in 1939 in NDB "We will guard You faithfully [our sea]"."
And a note from the book's final chapter:
"Masiuk Józef, son of Piotr (1920), corporal, 14th Inf. Rgt. The company chief who didn't want to hide behind collegues' backs. Awarded with the Cross of the Brave, Sgt. of the reserve. Works in "Wałbrzych" Factory as a Benzol destiller. Lives in Wałbrzych"
