![]() ![]() ![]() Even in February 1943, five months before the battle began, Hitler spoke of his new tanks as a “gigantic concentration of the newest offensive weapons” that would restore German superiority on the Eastern Front. ![]() The Kursk battle is most often remembered as a gigantic tank clash, when German Tigers, Panthers and Ferdinands crashed into Soviet defensive lines that bulged westward around the Russian city. Yet despite this initial success, the seeds for a German defeat at Kursk had already been sown, in the air and on the ground. In terms of numbers, that made it the Luftwaffe’s greatest day of air combat in the entire war. The Germans reported 367 victories that day. The German pilots in their Messerschmitt Me-109s and Focke-Wulf Fw-190s had a field day against their Soviet adversaries and their inferior Yakovlev fighters. Think It’s Easy to Destroy Tanks With Airplanes? Think Again OL5998311W Origin-contact Origin-note Physical items are owned or controlled by and digitized by Internet Archive Origin-organization Internet Archive Page_number_confidence 93.89 Pages 182 Ppi 300 Republisher_date 20200103115148 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 296 Scandate 20191227040830 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780760312544 Tts_version 3.At the Battle of Kursk, the Nazis Learned You Can’t Win a Tank Battle Without Air Power Close Urn:lcp:kurskgreatesttan0000barb:epub:f4f31df3-dd5e-453b-bb85-7d30d0dbe3b1 Foldoutcount 0 Homepage Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 01:58:01 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1756004 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]()
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