Battle of Kursk (1943): Kharkov German counter
[14] [kursk-0-14] Battle of Kursk is the record of 1943 under “Kharkov German counter.” The figure to read with it is 03. Do not arrange states in a league. Fix who moved what, and where, to that year. Do not add a later war into the same total. Operation Citadel opened on 5 July 1943 against the Soviet-held Kursk salient, after months of delay that the Red Army used to pack the bulge with mines,
A prepared bulge and a last German throw Citadel was an offensive the defender had been allowed to watch being prepared -- and the counterstrokes were the larger war. Hitler delayed for more new armour (Panther, Elefant). Zhukov and Vasilevsky used the time. A late offensive against a ready defence is the political-military fact.
Allied landings in Sicily (10 July) pulled Hitler's attention and some formations -- a second-front shadow on an eastern map. The northern face stalled earlier. The southern face got farther and made Prokhorovka a name. Neither pinch closed. Soviet deep reserves (Steppe Front) were the depth Citadel could not eat.
Operations Kutuzov and Rumyantsev took Orel and Kharkov. The campaign's meaning is this sequel, not only the defensive week. The Wehrmacht in the east was thereafter on the strategic defensive. Later Soviet figures of wrecks were propaganda arithmetic. Recent work (Zamulin, Glantz, and others) cuts the "meeting of 1,200 tanks in a field" cartoon without making the day small.
Say Battle of Kursk with 1943, “Kharkov German counter,” and 03. The figure is not a national score.1943
Figures to keep
- Year of the action
- 1943
- Figure in the record
- 03
- Action
- Battle of Kursk
- Line of the front
- Kharkov German counter
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