Tank Strength of the 1st Tank Army*

which took part in the counter-blow on July 12

UpdatedDecember 30, 2007
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Unit number T-60 T-70 T-34 KV-1/KV-1S M3L M3M Mk IV Churchill Total
5th Stalingrad Guards Tank Corps
21 & 22 GTBde - 4 10 - - - 5 19
22nd GTBde - 5 6 - - - - 11
Total - 9 16 - - - 5 30
10th Tank Corps
178th TBde - 19 26 - - - - 45
183rd TBde - 11 22 - - - - 33
186th TBde - 19 29 - - - - 48
Total - 49 77 - - - - 126
31st Tank Corps
237th TBde (by 12:00) - 8 21 - - - - 29
242nd TBde - ? ? - - - - ?
100th TBde (by July 11) - 2 15 - - - - 17
Total ? 10+ 36+ ? ? ? ? 46+
3rd Mechanised Corps (A group of colonel Gorelov)
1st GTBde+203rd SHTR - - 14 9 - - - 23
49th TBde (by 12:00) 1 4 18 - - - - 23
192nd TBde*1 - - - - 10 4 - 14
Total 1 4 32 9 10 4 - 60
Grand Total 1 72 161 9 10 4 5 ~262

* - operable tanks.

*1 - United battalion thereof.


Abbreviations

GTBde - Gds. Tank Brigade

GTC - Gds. Tank Corps

M3L - M3 Light

M3M - M3 Medium

SHTR - Separate Heavy Tank Regiment

TBde - Tank Brigade

TC - Tank Corps


Literature

1.V.Zamulin, "Zasekrechennaya Kurskaya Bitva", Moscow, Yauza, Eksmo, 2007


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