 On 21 August Richthofen personally flew across the Don in his Fieseler Fi 156 and was shocked at the carnage of dead Soviet bodies and destroyed tanks.Hours after Richthofen's sightseeing, "Kampfgeschwader 76"'s Junkers Ju 88 medium bombers exterminated two surprised Soviet reserve divisions on open fields 150 kilometers east of Stalingrad.Richthofen was excited and delighted by the one-sided massacre and wrote in his diary