A 7.92mm Bullet

When the last reserves are used up, a penal unit is thrown into the battle. And then begins a clash that makes the earth hum with the roar, while streams run with blood… In July 1943, at the junction of the 11th Guards Army and the 50th Army, on the very first day of the offensive on the northern face of the Kursk Salient, a separate penal unit went into attack, commanded by a lieutenant Vorontsov. With gunfire, bayonets, and rifle butts breaking through the enemy’s forward lines, the penal fighters allowed the Guards units and tank brigades to enter the breach and develop a successful offensive toward Oryol and Khotynets.