Battle of Kursk order of battle

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.

German

Army Group Centre (Günther von Kluge)

Army Group South (Erich von Manstein)

Luftwaffe

Soviet

Western Front (Vasily Sokolovsky)

50th Army (Ivan Boldin)

11th Guards Army (Ivan Bagramyan)

1st Air Army (Mikhail Gromov)

  • 2nd Assault Aviation Corps
  • 2nd Fighter Aviation Corps
  • 8th Fighter Aviation Corps

Front assets

  • 1st Tank Corps (Vasily Butkov)
  • 5th Tank Corps (Mikhail Sakhno)

Bryansk Front (Markian Popov)

3rd Army (Alexander Gorbatov)

  • 41st Rifle Corps (Viktor Urbanovich)
  • 269th Rifle Division
  • 283rd Rifle Division
  • 342nd Rifle Division

61st Army (Pavel Belov)

63rd Army (Vladimir Kolpakchi)

15th Air Army (Nikolai Naumenko)

Front Assets

Central Front (Konstantin Rokossovsky)

13th Army (Nikolay Pukhov)

48th Army (Prokofy Romanenko)

60th Army (Ivan Chernyakhovsky)

65th Army (Pavel Batov)

70th Army (Ivan Galanin)

  • 28th Rifle Corps (Aleksandr Nechaev)
    • 132nd Rifle Division
    • 211th Rifle Division
    • 280th Rifle Division
  • 102nd Rifle Division
  • 106th Rifle Division
  • 140th Rifle Division
  • 162nd Rifle Division
  • 354th Rifle Division

2nd Tank Army (Alexei Rodin)

16th Air Army (Sergei Rudenko)

  • 3rd Bomber Aviation Corps
  • 6th Mixed Aviation Corps
  • 6th Fighter Aviation Corps

Front Assets

Voronezh Front (Nikolai Vatutin)

6th Guards Army (Ivan Chistiakov)

7th Guards Army (Mikhail Shumilov)

  • 24th Guards Rifle Corps (Nikolai Vasilev)
  • 25th Guards Rifle Corps (Gany Safiulin)
  • Independent 213th Rifle Division

38th Army (Nikandr Chibisov)

  • 50th Rifle Corps
  • 51st Rifle Corps (Petr Avdeenko)
    • 180th Rifle Division
    • 240th Rifle Division
  • Independent 204th Rifle Division

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)

5th Guards Tank Army (Pavel Rotmistrov)

5th Air Army (Sergei Goriunov)

  • 7th Mixed Aviation Corps
  • 8th Mixed Aviation Corps
  • 3rd Fighter Aviation Corps
  • 7th Fighter Aviation Corps

Citations

  1. ↑ Holm, Michael. "Luftflotte 4". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-08-22.
  2. 1 2 Clark 2012, p. 200.
  3. ↑ Holm, Michael. "Luftflotte 6". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-08-22.
  4. ↑ Clark 2012, p. 204.
  5. ↑ Glantz & House 2004, p. 323.

References

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