Battle of Kursk order of battle
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The Battle of Kursk order of battle is a list of the significant units that fought in the Battle of Kursk between July and August 1943.
Contents
- 1 German
- 2 Soviet
- 3 Citations
- 4 References
German
Army Group Centre (Günther von Kluge)
2nd Panzer Army (Erich-Heinrich Clößner)
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9th Army (Walther Model) |
2nd Army (Walter Weiß)
Army Group Reserve |
Army Group South (Erich von Manstein)
4th Panzer Army (Hermann Hoth) |
Army Detachment Kempf (Werner Kempf) |
Army Group Reserve |
Luftwaffe
- Luftflotte 4 (4th Air Fleet) (Otto Deßloch as both commander-in-chief and chief of staff[1]) - Air support for Army Group South[2]
- VIII Fliegerkorps (8th Air Corps)
- Luftflotte 6 (6th Air Fleet) (Robert Ritter von Greim as commander-in-chief and Friedrich Kless as chief of staff[3]) - Air support for Army Group Center[2]
- 1. Flieger Division (1st Air Division)
Soviet
Western Front (Vasily Sokolovsky)
50th Army (Ivan Boldin) |
11th Guards Army (Ivan Bagramyan) |
1st Air Army (Mikhail Gromov) |
Front assets
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Bryansk Front (Markian Popov)
3rd Army (Alexander Gorbatov) |
61st Army (Pavel Belov) |
63rd Army (Vladimir Kolpakchi) |
15th Air Army (Nikolai Naumenko) |
Front Assets |
Central Front (Konstantin Rokossovsky)
13th Army (Nikolay Pukhov)
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48th Army (Prokofy Romanenko) |
60th Army (Ivan Chernyakhovsky) |
65th Army (Pavel Batov) |
70th Army (Ivan Galanin)
2nd Tank Army (Alexei Rodin)16th Air Army (Sergei Rudenko)Front Assets |
Voronezh Front (Nikolai Vatutin)
6th Guards Army (Ivan Chistiakov) |
7th Guards Army (Mikhail Shumilov) |
38th Army (Nikandr Chibisov) |
40th Army (Kirill Moskalenko) |
69th Army (Vasily Kriuchenkin) |
1st Tank Army (Mikhail Katukov)2nd Air Army (Stepan Kravsovsky)
Front Assets |
Steppe Front (Ivan Konev)
This order of battle does not show the complete composition of the Steppe Front. In addition to the units listed below, there are also the 4th Guards, 27th, 47th and 53rd Armies. [4]
5th Guards Army (Alexei Zhadov)
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5th Guards Tank Army (Pavel Rotmistrov) |
5th Air Army (Sergei Goriunov) |
Citations
- ↑ http://www.ww2.dk/air/hq/lfl4.htm
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Clark 2012, p. 200.
- ↑ http://www.ww2.dk/air/hq/lfl6.htm
- ↑ Clark 2012, p. 204.
References
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