Chapter 84:
February 5, 1940
Northern Poland, near Gdańsk (Danzig), Westerplatte
"Run, run-!"
"Gasp, air raid-!"
After the storm of tanks had swept through and cut off their retreat route, the Polish Army was being unilaterally attacked by the German infantry unit and pushed back in a frenzy.
German Hs 123 biplanes flew through the sky, strafing every Polish soldier in sight with their machine guns, and whenever the frantically fleeing Polish soldiers tried to take cover behind a friendly tank, a deafening roar would invariably split the air.
"Ugh, it's a Stuka again!"
In the plains devoid of cover, the only salvation the infantry could find was tanks, but even those were directly hit on their tops by the Stuka's dive bombing, exploding and turning into flaming coffins.
The already few and precious Polish tanks had performed reasonably well in the early stages of the war when the number of German troops was small, but once enemy reinforcements from Italy arrived and they lost air superiority, they began to be destroyed all too easily.