Posted on 02/10/2021 6:10:04 AM PST by Onthebrink
I said in my post the tank battles of North Africa, the Italian Campaign , and Normandy.
I know what transpired on the Eastern Front. It was horrific. A war between two scorpions in a bottle.
I didn’t mean to single out The Bulge as bigger that Kursk although The Bulge was a month and a half of a a hellish fight.
Some of the tanks would have been British Mathildas or Valentines. Some would have been American Stuarts and Lee/Grants. The first 75mm gun, diesel powered Sherman’s didn’t arrive in the Soviet Union until the early summer of 1943, so there were probably no American Sherman’s at Kursk.
The first German attack at Kursk occurred 4 July, the last action was July 17th. The battle lasted about 13 days.
Yep and I think the casualty estimates at Kursk are 800,000 Soviets and 200,000 Germans. That is a heck of a couple weeks!
Prokhorovka lasted 2 days. The Kursk campaign lasted through July and into August.
Brody is also known as Dubno.
I guess the post by Jim to be “nice” to each other has fallen on deaf ears. No doubt, you know better than anyone else—please tell me how these posts follow his rules? Do you believe you know better than him?
I will await your explanation. This ought to be good.
Welcome to FreeRepublic, fellow history lover. Don’t let the self-appointed Karens get you down. I’ve been here since 1998 and enjoyed the article.
amen
I do believe it is the poster’s blog.
wait some more...it’s coming.
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Just another internet anus. I get it.
Have fun running this corner.
So he joined 11/2020 to pimp his site for traffic? Thought so. He’s posted 20 times from the same site. A little disclaimer would have helped. THnx.
you dont wanna wait? You mean you try to be internet tough guy on me instead of some FAKE NAVY clown who said F&&& Y** on the threads? Awww, thank God you have your priorities straight s/
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I am not tough at all.
I don’t need to protect someone else’s web site. I do t recall seeing that job posted. But you seem to have accepted it, without it being offered.
That is pretty much the definition of pathetic.
are you butt hurt about Fake Navy Guy? awwwwww
Size is more than numbers of tanks. Kursk was not even like a war of maneuver. It was like a World War I battle in that the offensive was telegraphed, it made slow and limited progress in mileage, and it trapped both sides in a meat grinder.
Stalingrad is never called a tank battle but it was a classic tank battle in that the Red Army launched a surprise attack that encircled the Germans, the Germans launched a counter attack to break the encirclement, and the Red Army defeated it.
In terms of decisiveness and distances covered, one cannot dismiss the desert battles just because the raw numbers of tanks were limited. The logistical difficulties both sides had maintaining armored forces in North Africa limited the size of the forces.
He also post from other web sites. Reckon he owns them also?
Take a look and see.......
https://freerepublic.com/tag/by:onthebrink/index?tab=articles
Agreed, especially on Kursk, that was a absolute built to the hilt meat grinder. And the Germans, unlike the previous years operations, went right where the soviets thought they would go. And the soviets were ready.
Africa with its endless open areas is what made me think, before I knew, that the tank battles would be in the thousands on both sides. If I had to guess, before I knew, I would’ve thought Rommel had twice what he had. But good field commanders do not need strength of numbers I suppose.
But at the same time, the vastness of russia is not to be downplayed, it is absolutely legendary. Just ask every single conqueror, outside maybe ghengis khan. But then again, Ghengis did not have to worry about a supply line either 👍
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