![]() "Blood, Steel and Myth" has a Pretty extensive chapter on Wittmann's actions on that day (along with another detailed description of 6./SS-PR 1 under Obersturmführer von Ribbentrop, son of the Foreign Minister of Hitler's Reich). With shellfire from German artillery at Gresnoe. Were down, some Soviets broke through this German screen and headed west where they met up Long, four of the Mks were hit from a distance of less then 225 yards. The few Mk IVs screening the Tigers, the Soviet attempt against the Tigers was suicidal. The T34s maneuvered to get in close using their speed and agility but with The Mk IVs, idling behind the Tigers, would have to wait until the tanks got within 800 Opened up at 1,800 yards, knowing the Soviets would not shoot until they reached 500 yards orĬloser. In the open field, Wittmann, Kling and their fellow Tigers State Farm when he saw many tanks from the 18th TC moving southwest past Ribbentrop’s Michael Wittmann, working with LAH, and his company of Tigers were south of the Oktiabrski ![]() You can also download it in PDF (see links below-right. Some info from this book "David Schranck 2013, Thunder At Prokhorovka A Combat History Of Operation Citadel Kursk July 1943" ![]()
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