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Kursk
Kursk (July 5-13, 1943)

But the Russians, who had built a classic defense-in-depth, held and the Germans were stopped.  From that point onward, until the end of the war, the Germans were on the defensive against the Soviets. Not only was Kursk the turning point in the war on the Eastern Front, it was also the largest tank battle in military history, with some 1,200 tanks slugging it out on July 12, 1943.

Result: Soviet victory.




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