The German armies were now being pressed into an ever-smaller area between Falaise and Argentan, and relentlessly pounded with artillery and air strikes.
The front line belong to the men who worked there—rifle-men and machine gunners, mortarman, forward artillery observers, communications men, and medics.
The Russians've set up a new kind of artillery, a rocket launcher called " Stalin's Organ" or " Katyusha" , because of its sound like a nest organ pipes, a most terrified weapon.
The accounts that we're getting from on the ground from activists and rescue groups, they say that airstrikes and artillery shelling continue to pound different parts of that rebel-held territory.
Like this, Germans narrowed age-old railroad station on the edge of Varennes-en-Argonne used to supply the vast network of trenches and artillery positions.
REPORTER (voice-over): Heavy artillery fire and a slow-moving front line, we may be in an era of technological progress, but the Russian invasion of Ukraine seems to share many similarities with conflicts a hundred years ago.
The night sky filled with a hail of bullets and from antiaircraft guns, and off in the distance you can hear what appears to be bombs of some kind hitting the ground, or perhaps artillery shells hitting the ground.
I have been under an artillery attack for twenty-four hours and have not lost a man. The enemy has demanded our surrender. Otherwise, he said, he will kill every one of us.