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Belgorod–Kharkov sector during this operation are estimated to be 71,611 killed and 183,955 wounded; 1,864 tanks, 423 artillery guns, and 153 aircraft were
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Detachment Kempf to defend its positions around the city. This meant critical delays of supplies and reinforcements, and the unit's position was becoming increasingly untenable. The way to Poltava now remained open,
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and the 8th Army had, for the moment, blunted the Soviet thrust, but to the north and southeast fresh blows had already been dealt or were in the making. The Red Army, on the other hand, employed the rippling effect that marked their offensives: if thwarted in one place, they would quickly shift to
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but very little else. The high consumption of ammunition in the last month and a half had cut into supplies put aside for the last two weeks of August and the first two weeks of
September; until the turn of the month the army would have to get along with fifty percent of its daily average
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Voronezh Front and the Steppe Front, which deployed about 1,144,000 men with 2,418 tanks and 13,633 guns and rocket launchers for the attack. Against this the German army could field 200,000 men and 237 tanks and assault
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Kharkov by the Germans and the Belgorod–Kharkov strategic offensive operation by the Soviets. The Soviet operation was executed in two primary axes, one in the Belgorod–Kharkov axis and another in the
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pushed in from three sides with the coming of daylight. The
Soviets sensed that the Germans were evacuating Kharkov, due to the lessening of artillery fire and diminishing resistance in the front lines. Later in the day, thunderous explosions were heard as
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joined the battles. All three Soviet armies suffered heavily, and the tank armies lost more than 800 of their initial 1,112 tanks. These Soviet reinforcements stopped the German counterattack, but their further offensive plans were blunted.
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Kharkov to the south, the German forces fought to hold open a corridor through which the 8th Army could withdraw. Soviet artillery and mortars shelled the corridor, and planes strafed and bombed the German columns. After dark, the
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countered with an order that the city had to be held "under all circumstances". After a prediction that the order to hold
Kharkov would produce "another Stalingrad", on 14 August 1943 Kempf was relieved by Manstein who appointed General
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Kharkov was now untenable; artillerymen, after firing their last rounds, were abandoning their guns to fight as infantry. The army's supply depot had five trainloads of spare tank tracks left over from
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southward to blunt the Soviet offensive. As intended, these Soviet operations drew off German forces from the main thrust of the Soviet offensive, dissipating the German reserve in anticipation for their main drive.
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requirements in artillery and tank ammunition. XI Army Corps now had a combat strength of only 4,000 infantrymen, one man for every ten yards of front. Two days after taking command of
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marked the first time in the war that the Germans were not able to defeat a major Soviet offensive during the summer and regain their lost ground and the strategic initiative.
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attempts on the corps left flank; Soviet armoured units had already appeared 20 miles behind the corps front line. XI Army Corps now made a series of phased withdrawals toward
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lost. German personnel losses were at least 10,000 killed and missing and 20,000 wounded. German tank losses are estimated to be several times lower than Soviet tank losses.
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On 21 August 1943, Manstein gave his consent to abandon Kharkov. On 22 August 1943 the German troops began their retreat from the city, under pressure from the Red Army. The
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107:Belligerents
88:Soviet Union
44:World War II
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1693:Glantz 2001
1488:89th Guards
1475:69th Armies
1431:Otto Wöhler
1371:Merla River
1363:69th Armies
1348:outflanking
1316:Kampfgruppe
1304:Erhard Raus
1228:Merla river
1189:Krasnokutsk
1109:40th Armies
1049:Mius Rivers
962:behind the
842:Prokhorovka
541:Gorky Blitz
536:3rd Kharkov
452:2nd Kharkov
354:1st Kharkov
349:Sea of Azov
164:200,000 men
2192:Categories
1566:References
1338:, and the
1287:March 2014
1267:unbalanced
1216:Bogodukhov
1173:Bogodukhov
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1065:XXIV Corps
974:Background
665:2nd Baltic
660:Dukla Pass
647:Doppelkopf
619:2nd Crimea
563:2nd Donbas
553:1st Donbas
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359:1st Crimea
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1085:53rd Army
690:Gumbinnen
635:Bagration
474:Sinyavino
458:Case Blue
343:Leningrad
268:Black Sea
1464:8th Army
1435:8th Army
1411:Chuguyev
1409:between
1379:Korotich
1236:XI Corps
1224:Zolochev
1212:Akhtyrka
1185:Akhtyrka
1167:and the
1142:Belgorod
1091:and the
1039:and the
1012:Azov Sea
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925:Voronezh
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862:Belgorod
735:Solstice
695:Budapest
685:Courland
675:Debrecen
670:Belgrade
592:2nd Kiev
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437:Demyansk
398:Chechnya
332:1st Kiev
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