APPROXIMATE SOVIET AND GERMAN LOSSES AT KURSK, …



APPROXIMATE SOVIET AND GERMAN LOSSES AT KURSK, JULY 1943

Men

USSR 177,847 of 1,272,700 (14%), but some of these units were not directly engaged in battle. When the count is restricted to those units that actually were engaged in the battle, the percent rises to between 20 and 30 percent (N. Cornish, Images of Kursk (Brassey, 2002) and D.Glantz and J. House, The Battle of Kursk (Ian Allen, 1999).

Germany About 50,000 of 685,000 men in Army Group Center and Army Group South devoted to this operation. Three Hungarian divisions involved, mostly in rearguard duty.

Tanks and Self-Propelled Guns

USSR 1,614 totally destroyed (of an approximate 5,000)

Germany 323 totally destroyed (of an approximate 1,500)

Nota Bene: These are approximations. It is difficult to ascertain precisely what troops and machines were involved and both sides had reason to fib after the fact.

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