The Battle of Kursk
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The T-34 Tank Battle in the Soviet Red Army
The Soviets threw something like five tank brigades into the battle around 600 fighting vehicles smashing headlong into advancing Germans. A T-34 tank commander Vasily Brückhoff that day is 19 years old and recalls that the distance between the tanks was below 100 meters. It wasn't a battle it was a slaughterhouse of tanks we crawled back and forth and fired everything was burning an indescribable stench hung in the air over the battlefield. When they did try to advance they did come up against anti-tank ditches and brilliantly located Soviet artillery that just poured fire down on the battlefield carefully calibrated fire, pre-prepared because the Soviets had time to reconnoit this ground
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