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Jul 13, 1943:
Largest tank battle in history ends
The Battle of Kursk, involving some 6,000 tanks, two million men,
and 5,000 aircraft, ends with the German offensive repulsed by
the Soviets at heavy cost.
In early July, Germany and the USSR concentrated their forces
near the city of Kursk in western Russia, site of a 150-mile-wide
Soviet pocket that jutted 100 miles into the German lines. The
German attack began on July 5, and 38 divisions, nearly half of
which were armored, began moving from the south and the north.
However, the Soviets had better tanks and air support than in
previous battles, and in bitter fighting Soviet antitank
artillery destroyed as much as 40 percent of the German armor,
which included their new Mark VI Tiger tanks. After six days of
warfare concentrated near Prokhorovka, south of Kursk, the German
Field Marshal Gunther von Kluge called off the offensive, and by
July 23 the Soviets had forced the Germans back to their original
positions.
In the beginning of August, the Soviets began a major offensive
around the Kursk salient, and within a few weeks the Germans were
in retreat all along the eastern front.
73, K.O. n0kfq
Another old retired guy
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