Advance on Oboyan

Tthe German attack commenced with a preliminary bombardment. The main attack was delivered by General Hoth's 4th SS Panzer Army. Opposing was the Soviet 6th Guards Army. The Soviets had constructed some fortified defensive belts called the Voronezh front. By …

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Tthe German attack commenced with a preliminary bombardment. The main attack was delivered by General Hoth's 4th SS Panzer Army. Opposing was the Soviet 6th Guards Army. The Soviets had constructed some fortified defensive belts called the Voronezh front. By the evening of 6 July, the Voronezh Front had committed all of its reserves, yet it could hold off the 4th Panzer Army. The XLVIII Panzer Corps along the Oboyan axis on the other hand, now had only the Red Army second defensive belt blocking it from breakthrough into the unfortified Soviet rear. On July 10th the full effort of the German corps was shifted back. The direction of their advance shifted from Oboyan toward Prokhorovka. General Hoth had discussed this move with Von Manstein since early May, and it was a part of the Axis plan since the outset of the offensive.

Oboyan, 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.

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