Dragon Armor 1/72 60336 German Stug.III AUSF.G Early Pro with Schurzen Side Armour Totenkopf' Kursk 1943
The Battle of Kursk (Russian: КурÑÐºÐ°Ñ Ð±Ð¸Ñ‚Ð²Ð°) refers to a series of German and Soviet operations on the Eastern Front of World War II in July and August 1943. It was the last German blitzkrieg offensive in the east executed by the German forces on a strategic scale during the war, with the hope of another great encirclement of Red Army forces but ended in a large-scale Soviet counteroffensive and strategic victory. The operations, which included the famous battle at Prokhorovka, remain both the largest series of armoured operations and the most costly single day of aerial warfare in history.
The Sturmgeschütz series proved to be very successful and served on all fronts as assault guns and tank destroyers. Although Tigers and Panthers are more well known, assault guns destroyed many more tanks. Because of their low silhouette, Sturmgeschütz IIIs were easy to camouflage and a difficult target. Sturmgeschütz crews were considered to be the elite of the artillery units. Sturmgeschütz units held a very impressive record of tank kills - some 20,000 enemy tanks by the spring of 1944.