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T-34 tank battle of kursk documents9/26/2023 They do not say where and what types of tanks. ![]() So there were 10 or 15 tanks deployed in the fortified areas. We have not seen any record of them other than the single report in the General Staff Study. But, in the unit records we had, we never had a report on them (including in the Sixth Guards Army records). ![]() According to the March-April 1944 Soviet General Staff Study done on Kursk, 10 or 15 tanks were deployed in the fortified areas as part of the defense. So either the LSSAH Tigers shot up a lot of M-3 Lees and Stuarts and they have become T-34s in the retelling, or the claims are just grossly inflated or flat out wrong.īut….there may have been a few T-34s in the area. There were no units armed with T-34s that were attached to the Sixth Guards Army, and the armored units in the area with T-34s were not in action for most of the 5th (this would include the III Mechanized Corps and the II Guards Tank Corps). Panzer Aces Wittmann and Staudegger at Kursk – part 1 These specific claims are discussed here: The biggest problem with the kill claims related to the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH) Division’s Tiger company on 5 July 1943 is that they claim dozens of T-34s killed on the 5th of July, when there were few in the area.
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