[@Frengo] Sounds insane but having read some other stories like this, yes it's plausible. I believe that might've been Stalingrad? The charge across the Wolga to get into the city was usually conscripts being put on a boat, arriving on the city bank and then being pushed.

1 man got ammo, the other got a rifle. The one with the ammo followed the man with the rifle, and when the man with the rifle died, the one with the ammo picked up the rifle and shot the Germans. Factual accuracy of this is debated but it was shown in Enemy at the Gates I believe. :lol