The Battle of Kursk
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- Prepare To Turn The Tide
- If you can hold them off Zhukov then we have them on the run!
- Comrade Zhukov, you most defend the Kursk Salient.
- Huraah, I will defend the Motherland!
- These positions wont do, I need Trench, Anti-Tank emplacements, along with AA-guns.
- Preparing Kursk
- Sir, we should also make it multiple lines deep to improve our defensive strength.
- Yes sir 2nd Battalion Engineers will begin work on setting up defensive positions for the assault on Kursk.
- Operation Citadel
- The Panzercorps must strike on the flanks, to break the infantry.
- Yes, and the Luftwaffe will provided supplementary support in absence of our battery's.
- In this scene the Marshal of the Soviet Union Gregori Zhukov is called in by the Soviet High Command to be bereft of the situation on the eastern front. This scene will show Zhukov entering a Government building in then Stalingrad, he meets with the High Command and is instructed that he is to take command of the Soviet Army's front. For in June of 1943 the Soviets where still recovering after the Battle of Stalingrad the Soviets knew the Germans had to lunch an attack if they had any hope of winning in the east and they new exactly where the attack would happen, at most advanced Soviet position a salient centered around the town of Kursk.
- Information Leaked
- I see re-enforce the flanks and prepare for massive tank and air assault, Dig in!
- Comrade Zhukov, urgent word from British Intelligence!
- Alright, comrades you heard the General get to work, the Germans are coming and they mean business.
- When Zhukov Arrives the scene will Show underwhelming defenses, and Zhukov then begins to order the Armies under his command to prepare trenches and other defensive earthen works, also sets up anti-tank artillery positions. The needs for the defense was imperative so therefore Zhukov was practically granted all the resource the Soviet army had. The need for defensive positions is that since the Nazi lost the Battle of Stalingrad and suffered a drastic loss in man power, the assault on Kursk would rely on their Tanks and Luftwaffe and Zhukov had to prepare.
- Support Arrives
- Soviet Air Defense comrade General, Hurah, Hurah, HUraaaah!
- Welcome Glorious Comrades!
- Greetings, comrade General from the 9th Guard tank corps. Hurah, Hurah, Huraaaaaaaaah!
- This scene will show the German General Staff planning the attack on Kursk which was called Operation Citadel, here great importance will be given on the fact that the German forces is low on manpower and they have to rely heavily on their Air Force and Panzercorps to provide the main thrust of their assault for their low on Artillery as well. Here they propose the idea of splitting their tank force in half and strike from the north and south of the Salient to encircle the Soviets and force a surrender.
- The Battle Kursk Begins
- Before the Germans attack Kursk in early July 1943, the intelligence at Bletchley park in England intercepted German communications that stated that in fact the Germans where going to concentrate the bulk of the attack on the flanks of the neck of Salient. therefore given Zhukov valuable time to re-enforce the flank positions to adsorbed the attack. This scene will show Zhukov receiving the information from the British intelligence and ordering that defenses need to be enhanced.
- The British Intelligence, proved to the Soviet High Command that Kursk was in fact where the Germans were going to attack. So, therefore they sent hundreds of planes and tanks to Kursk that will be committed to the the fight ahead. This scene will show Zhukov welcoming the arriving IL-2 and Yak's from the Air Force and T-34 tanks from the 9th Old Guard Battalion.
- On July 5, 1943 elements of the second Panzer division , along with the German Wehrmacht, supported from the Air from JU-88 Stuka dive bombers Attacked the the Northern and Southern neck of the Kursk Salient and the Battle of Kursk had Begun, and one of the greatest battles ever fought had commenced. The final scene will show a battle sequence of the "Neck" being attacked.
- Charge!
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