Second special mention:
January 30 2023: 90th anniversary of Hitler becoming chancellor. An obscure moment, but an important one.
An interesting BBC article on the 70th anniversary of Kursk:
5 July 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23137492
Kursk legacy: Will there ever be another massive tank battle?
@CWO:
An interesting BBC article on the 70th anniversary of Kursk:
5 July 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23137492
Kursk legacy: Will there ever be another massive tank battle?
Only during the next American Civil War.
Fantastic article Marc. Thank you.
I wanted to post today, but the Gettysburg anniversary has finished me off!
I need a break.
I have just bought a book on the 4 Eastern Front Panzer Armies. That will get me in the mood again.
One of the links in the article…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/pressure-exerted-by-a-scorpion-tank/17.html
…mentions the interesting factoid that a ballerina standing on one point exerts more ground pressure than a tank because, even though she exerts a lot less force, that force is concentrated on much smaller area of ground. This would have made an interesting (though clumsy) WWII Soviet propaganda slogan: “Our heroic Bolshoi ballerinas exert more ground pressure than a Fascist Tiger tank!”