Luchki (part 1)

Ferocious battles were being fought as the Germans smashed into the Soviet’s second line of defense. Along the critical Belgorod-Kursk highway, ‘Der Führer’ Regiment of the 2nd SS PzGren Div., ‘Das Reich’, is trying to seize the village of Luchki. …

1943-07-06

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Ferocious battles were being fought as the Germans smashed into the Soviet’s second line of defense. Along the critical Belgorod-Kursk highway, ‘Der Führer’ Regiment of the 2nd SS PzGren Div., ‘Das Reich’, is trying to seize the village of Luchki. If successful, this will open a huge gap in the defences of General Chistyakov’s 6th Guards Army into which the II SS Panzer Corps can rush through.

Luchki, Russia

The Battle of Kursk was a Second World War engagement between German and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front near Kursk in the Soviet Union, during July and August 1943. The battle began with the launch of the German offensive Operation Citadel, on 5 July, which had the objective of pinching off the Kursk salient with attacks on the base of the salient from north and south simultaneously. After the German offensive stalled on the northern side of the salient, on 12 July the Soviets commenced their Kursk Strategic Offensive Operation with the launch of Operation Kutuzov against the rear of the German forces in the northern side. On the southern side, the Soviets also launched powerful counterattacks the same day, one of which led to a large armoured clash, the Battle of Prokhorovka. On 3 August, the Soviets began the second phase of the Kursk Strategic Offensive Operation with the launch of Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev against the German forces in the southern side of the Kursk salient.

Wikipedia: Battle of Kursk

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