The Battle of Prokhorovka
Warfare
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How to Recover Tanks in Operation Pokaroka?
Ben wheatly: The nature of going backwards is very attritional to tank numbers. When they returned to the eastern front tat the sobiet, conducted a massive offensive in late december and early january. So that shows how massof losses they were experiencing later in forty three but that would be chiefly down to the difficulties of withdrawing tanks. There wasn't the recovery of vehicles so you have a large number of tanks waiting repair. You just have to abandon them, basically. Plus the train at wasn't, not good for pans operations, wind time, wooded areas well. Even at pokaroka, the germans controlled the actual battlefield even though the number of damaged tanks
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