War - Ww2 - Russian Stalingrad Ally In Ww2 Poem by Paul Warren

The fighting in WW2 around Stalingrad
Was as hard as the Great War was bad
The German Army ended up in a siege
And 91,000 Germans were captured and aggrieved
Hitler's aim to take the Russian fields of oil
Were for him in this German offensive spoiled

But the Russians had an Ally not known then
When German tanks reserves were ready to defend
Russian field mice crawled their way into the tanks
And chewed their electrical wires disabling them quite blank
So these German tanks when they were needed in battle
Could not be used - assisting the Russians in their mettle

These Russian field mice deserved to be applauded
It would seem in war the little things can be rewarded.

© Paul Warren Poetry