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Title
Komsomolets Collision
Description
As SS General Hausser’s 11 SS Panzer Corps began its final assault toward Prokhorovka, it met Lieutenant General P.A. Rotmistrov’s 5th Guards Tank Army less than 5 kilometers from the German objective. When the opposing forces crashing into one another, the Guards unit was moving to counter-attack in an effort to stop the German thrust...
Subject
Publisher
Date
1943-07-12
Scenario#
K07
Scenario Description
As SS General Hausser’s 11 SS Panzer Corps began its final assault toward Prokhorovka, it met Lieutenant General P.A. Rotmistrov’s 5th Guards Tank Army less than 5 kilometers from the German objective. When the opposing forces crashing into one another, the Guards unit was moving to counter-attack in an effort to stop the German thrust. Thus began a climactic day of swirling tank battles as both forces tangled head-on in numerous meeting engagements. Part of the Russian attack, led by the 29th Tank Corps, smashed into the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hiller. The 29th’s 31st Tank Brigade struck in two places, seeking, and finding soft spots in the flank of SSLAH, which was guarded thinly by its reconnaissance battalion. A small force of Russian tanks, with infantry riding on decks, punched through the reconnaissance battalion and plunged into the German rear. The Russians reached the positions of the 8th Artillery Regiment, whose 15 cm guns, combined with a desperate, close-range infantry assault, blunted the Russian probe near the collective. Russian soldiers died like flies that day. But they had halted Hitler’s finest short of Prokhorovka, bleeding the nazi elite guard white in the process.
Location
Prokhorovka, Russia
Battle Name
Battle Narrative
The Battle of Prokhorovka was fought on 12 July 1943 near Prokhorovka, 87 kilometers (54 mi) southeast of Kursk in the Soviet Union, during the Second World War. Taking place on the Eastern Front, the engagement was part of the wider Battle of Kursk, and occurred when the 5th Guards Tank Army of the Soviet Red Army attacked the II SS-Panzer Corps of the German Wehrmacht in one of the largest tank battles in military history.
Narrative Source
Combatants
German
Russian
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