@FrengoOut of the brush on the West end of the battlefield, three German soldiers lugging heavy gear stumbled as the equipment got caught on the branches. This was the Pioneer squad sent out by the logistical commander to bring the German Panzers back to field capacity. Obergefreiter Abeln, Gefreiter Hertz, and Gefreiter Kulner entered the field searching for wrecks, and plenty were scattered around, though they sought to find the Panzer III they were called to mend. It took only a few seconds for them to notice the wrecked Panzer lying in the field, and they rushed up to its track, and set their equipment up.
Hertz began detaching the damaged track sections as Kulner prepared other interchangeable track sections to replace them. Sgt. Abeln, however, worried about the crew, not as though he knew them, but rather as to where they may be. It took some effort, but with a focused eye he nailed the tank crew behind some destroyed Soviet tank a good distance away from them. As the corporals begin removing pieces from the tank, Abeln made his way into yelling distance of the tank crew and called them; it took a few tries, but one of the crewman noticed him and nodded to the commander of the Panzer, and the crew made its way back to the Pioneer team.
When they got to the tank, they immediately pestered the Pioneers. "What took you so long? The battle has gone and left us!" whined one of the crewmen, "Why aren't you done yet?!"
"We just got here, and this isn't exactly easy," Abeln replied, "Every one of the track sections hit by the shell need to be removed and replaced with a new one, and we might not even have enough to fix the whole track."
"What do you mean 'not enough'? You didn't bring enough?! I thought you were supposed to be a Pioneer because you knew what you were doing," barked another crewman.
Cpl. Hertz turned, "Do you know how to replace a 12-cylinder engine block?" he calmly scolded, "I bet not, so unless you know how to operate welding equipment, where do you people keep the treads your supposed to have on the Panzer?"
The tank commander stepped forward, "Yes, the extra sections are next to my seat, in between me and the drivers seat." Cpl. Kulner clambered into the tank to retrieve the sections."
"So will our tank be operational anytime soon?" complained the last crewman.
"Depends on if you want it 'good' or 'done'," Kulner replied as he dumped the track sections out of the turret, "For all we know, the battle could end before the entire tank is replaced, unless you boys want to start unscrewing the broken bits."
The crewmen looked at each other for a moment, then grabbed some tools and began unhitching the damaged treads.