Turkish tanks maneuver during a military exercise near the Turkish-Iraqi border in Silopi, Turkey. After advancing a mere eight miles, the German attack ground to a halt. Heres how 10 of the largest and most important tank battles in history played out. Fought from the 5 th to the 23 rd of July 1943, the Battle of Kursk was the greatest tank battle in history. To make matters worse, the Germans were now coming under fire from ground-attack aircraft. Coupled with first-hand accounts from the eyes of. He had survived arrest, torture and imprisonment during Stalin’s purge of army officers in 1937. Witness the gritty realism and experience the thunderous tanks from perspectives never before possible. Soviet Commander of the northern sector of the Kursk salient. He was mortally wounded in an attack by Ukrainian nationalists in February 1944. Soviet Commander of the southern sector of the Kursk salient. He committed suicide at the end of the war. Nicknamed the Führer’s Fireman, Hitler considered Model one of his best generals. He had been key in the defeat of France in 1940 and, earlier in 1943, had stabilised the front after German failure at Stalingrad.Ĭommander of the northern German pincer. Between them, these four men commanded around 2.8 million men, 8,000 tanks and 4,200 aircraft…Ĭommander of the southern German pincer.
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