User:Hungrydog55/sandbox/military/russianfront/1943-00 Kursk
Northern Sector (Orel Salient)
[edit]Axis Forces
[edit]Army Group Center
[edit]Feldmarschal Gunther von Kluge
Armies deployed north to south:
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Soviet Forces
[edit]Western Front
[edit]Colonel General Vasily Sokolovsky[6]
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Bryansk Front
[edit]Colonel General Markian Popov[7]
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Central Front
[edit]Army General Konstantin Rokossovsky[8]
Armies deployed west to east:
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Southern Sector (Belgorod Salient)
[edit]Axis Forces
[edit]Army Group South
[edit]Feldmarschal Erich von Manstein
Armies deployed west to east:
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Soviet forces
[edit]Voronezh Front
[edit]Army General Nikolai Vatutin[13]
Armies deployed north to south:
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Deployed behind front lines:
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Steppe Front
[edit]Colonel General Ivan Konev
The front was formed from the Steppe Military District on 9 July,[14] to serve as a reserve if the German attack broke through and to provide fresh troops for a counterattack to begin as soon as the German attack was halted. This order of battle does not show the complete composition of the Steppe Front. In addition to the units listed below, there were also the 4th Guards, 27th, 47th and 53rd Armies.[15] The 4th Guards,[16] 27th, 47th, and the 53rd Armies were held in reserve during the battle and thus did not participate.[17] The 5th Guards Army and the 5th Guards Army were both committed to the counterattack in the Battle of Prokhorovka, where they fought as part of the Voronezh Front.[18]
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Fifth Guards Army[h][19]
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Fifth Guards Tank Army[j][21]
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Fifth Air Army[l][22][23]
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Citations
[edit]- ^ Glantz & House 2004, p. 283.
- ^ Glantz & House 2004, pp. 283–285.
- ^ a b Glantz & House 2004, p. 285.
- ^ Holm, Michael. "Luftflotte 6". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-08-22.
- ^ Clark 2012, p. 200.
- ^ Glantz & House 2004, pp. 290–295.
- ^ Glantz & House 2004, pp. 295–299.
- ^ Glantz & House 2004, pp. 299–306.
- ^ Glantz & House 2004, pp. 285–287.
- ^ Glantz & House 2004, pp. 287–289.
- ^ Glantz & House 2004, pp. 289.
- ^ Holm, Michael. "Luftflotte 4". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-08-22.
- ^ Glantz & House 2004, pp. 306–315.
- ^ Glantz & House 2004, p. 322.
- ^ Clark 2012, p. 204.
- ^ Glantz & House 2004, p. 244.
- ^ Dunn 2008, pp. 75–78.
- ^ Glantz & House 2004, p. 113.
- ^ Glantz & House 2004, pp. 323–324.
- ^ Glantz & House 2004, p. 323.
- ^ Glantz & House 2004, pp. 326–327.
- ^ Zetterling & Frankson 2000, p. 75.
- ^ Glantz & House 2004, p. 328.
Notes
[edit]- ^ Committed suicide 21 April 1945 after dissolving his army group rather than accede to a US demand for surrender.
- ^ Killed in action during Operation Kutuzov 2 August 1943.
- ^ Committed 9 July
- ^ Served as commander-in-chief; Friedrich Kless served as chief of staff
- ^ Killed 13 July; Major General Ivan Fedyunkin from 22 July
- ^ Replaced by Lieutenant General Semyon Bogdanov 2 August.
- ^ Served as both commander-in-chief and chief of staff
- ^ Transferred to Voronezh Front on 8 July.
- ^ Directly subordinated to the front on 7 July; became part of the 1st Tank Army on 8 July
- ^ Transferred to Voronezh Front on 11 July.
- ^ Joined the army from the Reserve of the High Command on 7 July.
- ^ Entered combat in mid-July.
References
[edit]- Clark, Lloyd (2012). Kursk: The Greatest Battle: Eastern Front 1943. London: Headline Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-7553-3639-5.
- Dunn, Walter S. (2008) [1997]. Kursk: Hitler's Gamble, 1943. Mechanicsburg, PA, USA: Stackpole. ISBN 9781461751229.
- Frankson, Anders; Niklas Zetterling (2002). "Styrkorna inför den tyska offensiven". Slaget om Kursk. Stockholm: Norstedts Förlag. ISBN 91-1-301078-6.
- Forczyk, Robert (2014). Kursk 1943: The Northern Front. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 978-1-78200-819-4.
- Forczyk, Robert (2017). Kursk 1943: The Southern Front. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 978-1-47281-690-0.
- Glantz, David M.; House, Jonathan M. (2004) [1999]. The Battle of Kursk. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-1335-9.
- Zetterling, Niklas; Frankson, Anders (2000). Kursk 1943: A Statistical Analysis. Cass Series on the Soviet (Russian) Study of War. London: Frank Cass. ISBN 0-7146-5052-8.