SS-Oberscharführer Josef Spöck was a popular NCO in 9.Kompanie.
He was later wounded in the battle.

Finnish SS volunteer

A German trooper grapples with a belt of ammunition for his MG42 machine gun, which has been attached to a wooden post to stabilize it. A pair of stick granades lie on the tarpaulin nearby.

Defensive position

Finnish SS-Untersturmführers Kaarlo Kuutti, Ola Olin and Tauno Pajunen in spring 1942. Kuutti fell at Kagalnitzkaja on 2.2.1943. Olin and Pajunen survived the war.