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Operation Citadel- Kursk, Heeresgruppe Sud(South)

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Operation Citadel
(German: Unternehmen Zitadelle).
Heeresgruppe Süd (army group south)

Preliminary fighting started on 4 July 1943 in the south, as Hermann Hoth's 4th Panzer Army elected to try to take Soviet outposts prior to the main assault on 5 July, sacrificing tactical surprise. Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin, having received reports that the German offensive was imminent.

It remains both the largest series of armored clashes, including the Battle of Prokhorovka, and the costliest single day of aerial warfare in history. It was the final strategic offensive the Germans were able to mount in the east.
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