[Broncazonk]

Originally Posted by Dan History

Bronc,

It is not a good idea to refer to Wikipedia as a source, in most cases. In this instance, the source cited is Christer Bergström's short book on the battle of Kursk published in 2007, which provides a good summary of German operations, though of course it suffers from the fact that only fragments of documents from the Russian side are available to researchers, even now. Christer made a minor error in the quoted extract, the Fw 190s did not have 30 mm cannon at this time, of course. The Hs 129s did have such cannon, and the newer MK 103 cannon was first used during the battle of Kursk.

One would have to conduct a detailed survey of the available German and Soviet primary sources to understand the course of air operations over Prokhorovka on 12 July. What is readily available is the general summary of Luftwaffe sorties on that day, on Pawel Burchard's excellent website, see http://www.yogysoft.de/pawel/_kursk/tagesmld/120743.htm


Note that many more strike sorties were flown in the northern sector of the Kursk salient, by Luftflotte 6, than in the southern. This was because of the Soviet offensive against the northern flank of the Orel bulge, which I have mentioned above.

Kind regards,

Dan

Thank you, Dan. But your reply is exactly why I did it. Sometimes, quoting Wikipedia is the only way to get the experts talking! ;-)