Hans Von Luck has some pretty good stories, he was quite a story teller.

My two favorite were of the Luftwaffe Flak crew that decided in Normandy that shooting at Canadian tanks on the ground was not in their job description, and that they only shot at airplanes!

Von Luck produced his pistol and ordered the Captain to shoot at the tanks, or he would shot him, promote his Lt, and hopefully he would shot at the tanks. Never argue with a sleep deprived, pissed off German Lt Colonial who is hell bent on doing his job.

The Canadian tanks had a bad go of it.

The other story was when he got re assigned from Russian in early 1942 and decided to jump into his Mercedes with his orderly and drive to Berlin non stop with lots of pep pills.

Well they got a bit turned around and their unit was out front...so before they knew it they were driving threw a clearing and a group of Russian infantry...the Russians didn't shoot at first because they were so surprised! His orderly was driving and he ordered him to floor it towards the other side of the clearing as he leaned his machine pistol out the window and let a mag fly, and as Russian bullets were punching holes in his beloved Mercedes.

He also said that the best way to get fuel quickly from depots behind the lines was to tell the motor pool guys that the Russians had broken threw and that they were running from them!

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