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Our advance guards made contact with weak Soviet infantry units. The strongest of these positions was situated in some large woods. Our advance platoon suffered heavy casualties in the ensuing firefight. Support from the battalion 120mm mortar battery was urgently requested. Under cover of this fire elements from C company launched an immediate attack to throw out the enemy defenders.

Despite heavy fighting the enemy defenders appear to have slipped out of the net. When the main body of the kampfgruppe arrives the advance into the river valley will be resumed.

The next phase in the battle will see the armoured elemnts of the kampfgruppe united. As Guderian says "You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread. "

Panzers marsche!

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