Thread: No Kursk ,No battle of Berlin in 45??????
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Default Re: No Kursk ,No battle of Berlin in 45??????
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Originally Posted by Chuikov64th View Post
This may be subject to debate but neither side suffered a debilitating/crushing blow at Kursk, they essentially fought one another to a standstill.
I beg your pardon? Even before the Kursk battle was finished the Red Army was already launching Op. Rumiantsev in the North shoulder of the salient aimed at 9th and 2nd Pz Armies, in the general direction of Orel.

This would be followed soon by Op. Kutuzov in the South shoulder, generally aimed at Belgorod-Kharkov.

Consider the battle of Kursk in two phases, defensive and offensive. Both reached their objectives.
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