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seeing photos of - or even thinking about - destroyed warsaw is heartbreaking and i really do not want to talk about it

My colleague aims the PIAT. At that moment I notice the round in the barrel has not been primed. "Stop, stop!" He looks at me. "You've forgotten the primer." I can see he's a bit over excited as he's only just arrived on the front line. I grab the PIAT away from him and fit the primer. I press the heavy weapon into my shoulder. The tank is in front of me, as if on a plate. I can see the enormous armour plating and the smoke coming from its muzzle. I set my sights. Slowly... carefully... The tank fires, below us again. I aim just behind the turret. There! I squeeze the trigger. The PIAT recoils, the round flies through the air... nearly there... It misses the tank and explodes to the rear of it. "Fuck!" Now my colleague tears the PIAT out of my hands. I don't stop him. I load a new round. Two more shots from the tank. Presumably they haven't noticed us. Suddenly it dawns on me - we're on the second floor! "Aim lower, much lower, under the tracks. We're too high up here." The barrel of the PIAT tilts down. I'm oblivious to everything glued to the gap in the wall. The weapon barks. There's a flash of light against the side of the tan. Got him! The thank is momentarily covered in smoke. There's a flash and an explosion nearby.

Zbigniew ‘Deivir’ Czajkowski, a corporal and patrol leader with the Home Army’s ‘Parasol’ scout battalion during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising describes using a PIAT against a German tank during street fighting.