10/18/2023 0 Comments T-34 tank battle of kursk documents![]() ![]() In all, more than half a million anti-tank mines and nearly 440,000 anti-personnel mines were laid. Some defensive zones were four miles deep, and no fewer than 2,200 anti-tank and 2,500 anti-personnel mines had been laid across every single mile of the front, a density four times that which had defended Stalingrad and six times that of Moscow. By employing the entire civilian population of the Kursk region, as well as the army, no fewer than 3,000 miles of trenches were dug by the Russians, and countless miles of barbed wire and obstacles, some of which were electrified were also in place, along with automatic flame-throwers. Furthermore, the cannon and armor-piercing bombs of Shturmovik ground-attack aircraft posed a mortal peril for the German tanks. These included more than 6,000 76.2mm anti-tank guns and 920 Katyusha multiple rocket launchers. In some sectors of the Russian defensive areas, artillery regiments outnumbered infantry by five to one, with more than 20,000 guns trained on the oncoming Wehrmacht tanks. With the attack postponed by the Fuhrer time and again, by early July the Germans faced a truly forbidding task.
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